Maoist chairman Prachanda has accused that ‘foreign forces’ were hatching conspiracies to derail the Constituent Assembly (CA) election.

Addressing a programme of Butwal Jaycees on Friday night in Butwal, Prachanda said reactionaries were plotting to turn Nepal into ‘Pakistan or Bangladesh’ – referring to the military-backed regimes in the two South Asian countries.

Prachanda claimed that since Maoists were going to win the election, foreign forces were working overtime to sabotage the polls. He said that the election faced threat more from forces from outside the country than from forces within the country.

The Gorkhapatra daily adds that Prachanda also made claims that on Friday morning itself, ‘power centers from India, United States and Britain held a meeting in Kathmandu and were trying to spoil the election environment by mobilising army.’

The Maoist chief threatened that his party will make every kind of sacrifice to defeat such conspiracies. nepalnews.com sd Feb 09 08