Chairman of CPN (Maoist) Prachanda (File photo)
Chairman of CPN (Maoist) Prachanda, after holding summit talks with the leaders of seven political parties in Kathmandu on Friday, left for Doti of far western region via Surkhet on Saturday morning.

Prachanda, his wife Sita Poudel and Maoist ideologue Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula landed in a Surkhet Airport on Saturday morning, according to reports.

The report added that Sitaula returned to Surkhet after leaving the Maoist leaders at a village on the banks of the Karnali river in the border of Doti and Surkhet.

Minister Sitaula held a meeting with government officials and chiefs of Surkhet-based security bodies after leaving the rebel leaders in Doti. Sitaula returned to Kathmandu Saturday afternoon.

Sources said Prachanda and Dr Bhattarai are on a nationwide campaign to train the Maoist activists for the constituent assembly elections, to be held “within a year.”

When asked by journalists during a press conference after the talks whether he will be staying Kathmandu, Maoist supremo said at the moment they are in a nationwide political campaign and will stay in Kathmandu if there was a conducive environment.

Home Minister Sitaula also received Maoist supremo Prachanda and leader Dr. Bhattarai in Pokhara before the summit talks.

The Maoists and the seven party alliance reached a 8-point agreement during the summit talks held on Friday to find peaceful outlet of the Maoist insurgency.

The summit talks between the Maoists and the ruling seven political parties, at the Prime Minister’s Residence at Baluwatar, decided to draft an interim constitution within 15 days, dissolve the House of Representatives and the “People’s Governments” of the Maoists, invite the United Nations to manage and monitor the weapons of both the armies and to form an interim government.