Incidents and Statments involving Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist 2016

Date

Nature of incident

January 24

Kathmandu

Kathmandu

Sources said that UCPN-M is posing hurdles in endorsing the draft regulations of the TRC and the CIEDP.

Four UCPN-M leaders joined Baburam Bhattarai-led New Force. The four leaders are Dhruba Parajuli, Gobinda Parajuli, Dil Bahadur Shrestha and Baburam Karki.

56 UCPN-M leaders and cadres left the party and joined the New Force led by former UCPN-M leader Baburam Bhattarai in Kavre District.

UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking at a cadre meeting in Kathmandu accused his former comrade Baburam Bhattarai of betraying the nation in the time of need and turning traitor.

Chitwan District

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that major political parties should be united for effective implementation of the Constitution and post-quake reconstructions.

Kathmandu

Police arrested UCPN-M MP Lharkyal Lama after the CIAA found 14 unused bullets and some shrapnel in his bank locker in the course of investigations.

SC allowed arrest and prosecution of UCPN-M leader and former CA member Keshav Rai charged with murders committed during the armed insurgency period.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a function in Charikot town of Dolakha District said that there is a need of national unity for the implementation of the new Constitution.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-Revolutionary Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya and the then senior leader of the UCPN-M, Baburam Bhattarai, among others, met the Prime Minister and urged that judicial cases from the war era against its leaders should not be dealt by regular courts of justice.

UCPN-M during its central committee meeting of the party decided to hold the party's general convention by April 2017. UCPN-M has also decided to initiate party unification process among other Maoist parties in the country.

Parsa District

UDMF cadres vandalized entrance gates prepared for a fair UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was scheduled to inaugurate in Birgunj city of Parsa District.

Parsa District

Police arrested 17 UDMF cadres in Birgunj city of Parsa District during a protest against visit by UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

UCPN-M Secretary Barsha Man Pun at a news conference organized by the Revolutionary Journalist Association in Dang District has opined for National Consensus Government for the enforcement of the new Constitution.

UCPN-M former politburo member Hemanta Prakash Oli organizing a press meet at Ghorahi of Dang District announced the formation of a new party called Communist Nucleus Center Nepal with an 11-member central committee.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing a joint training organized by Society of Martyrs' Families and the Society of the Families of Fighters Disappeared by the State at the party headquarters in Kathmandu said that the Maoists' uprising would move forward under the strength of full unity.

Kathmandu

Five Maoist parties in a meeting held at UCPN-M party office at Kathmandu decided to press the Government to amend the TRC Act with a provision of bringing the war-era sub judice cases under the jurisdiction of the commission from various courts.

Dang District

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a news conference organized by the Revolutionary Journalists Association in Dang District said that he would take responsibility for the incidents that occurred during the decade-long Maoist movement.

Kathmandu

The Standing Committee meeting of UCPN-M kick off in Kathmandu discussed party unity, peace process, implementation of Constitution and the Government.

NC joined hands with UCPN-M and agitating UDMF to topple KP Sharma Oli-led Government.

In order to save the Government, UCPN-M and CPN-UML signed a nine-point agreement to form a national consensus government with an objective to create conducive environment for the implementation of Constitution and socio-economic transformation.

Conflict Victims Common Platform Nepal said that the political agreement the ruling CPN-UML and UCPN-M parties struck in order to keep the ruling coalition intact has breached the current transitional justice process.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal taking part in a meeting of the Legislature Parliament expressed discontentment at the Government's policy and programme for lacking clear vision in dealing with the issues of Madhes, setting up proper mechanism for implementation of Government's programmes and conducting civic polls.

Six Maoists parties including the UCPN-M led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal met at Dahal's Lazimpat residence in Kathmandu and pointed out the need of immediate unification by settling the disputes.

TRC and CIEDP members said that the recent nine-point pact sealed between the ruling CPN-UML and UCPN-M parties has shattered thousands of conflict-victims' hope for justice.

Ten Maoist parties in a joint convention in Kathmandu united to form a new force under the UCPN-M leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal to give birth to what they have decided to call CPN-Maoist Centre.

Chairperson of NHRC Anup Raj Sharma said that the nine-point agreement reached between coalition partners CPN-UML and UCPN-M cannot override the order issued by the SC on the issue of human rights violations during the decade-long armed insurgency.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal in a press conference organized by the Revolutionary Journalists Association, Chitwan District said that he will be leading the new Government after endorsement of the new budget as per the nine-point understanding reached between his party and the CPN-UML.

UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal responded to the SC's summon on a contempt of court case and argued that he did not make any statement against honor of the judiciary.

Naya Shakti, under the leadership of former UCPN-M leader Baburam Bhattarai, has been formally announced amidst a gathering of thousands of people convened at Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu.

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking with the media persons at Biratnagar Airport in Morang District underscored the need to form National Unity Government for the implementation of the Constitution.

Kathmandu

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said his party is making efforts to get over and get back to the revolutionary path though it got stuck in a bog of parliamentary system and luxuries after joining the mainstream politics.

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal talking to reporters in Rautahat District said that the Government should amend the work-procedure in order to provide at least NR 3,00,000 to each family.

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking at a function in Banke District said that national consensus was a must to expedite the national development projects and give an end to all the problems currently facing the nation.

Two cadres of CPN-Maoist Center were arrested on the charge of attacking NC leader Ram Baran Paswan in a minor dispute on the formation of the management committee of the Janata Secondary School at Janakpur of Dhanusa District.

A politburo meeting of the CPN-Maoist Center decided to form a consensus Government to resolve the current problems facing the nation.

CPN-Maoist Center, a major coalition partner in the incumbent Government, at a meeting held at the residence of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal in Kathmandu urged the ruling CPN-UML to fully implement all the agreements made with it in the past.

Kathamandu

CPN-Maoist Center announced that it has withdrawn support from the CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli-led coalition Government. The Maoist party had demanded that the CPN-UML handed over the government's leadership to it as per the gentlemen's agreement made during the formation of the ruling alliance.

Kathamandu

Minister for Information and Communications Sherdhan Rai speaking at an interaction at Reporters' Club warned that the decision of the CPN-Maoist Center to withdraw the support to the current Government will prove fatal for its Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Kathamandu

CPN-Maoist Centre decided to file a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at the Parliament if he did not resign at the earliest. Eight Ministers representing CPN-Maoist Centre resigned from the coalition Government led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

Kathamandu

CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal showed up at Khulamanch in Kathmandu where the Federal Alliance was officially concluding its 39-day relay hunger strike, apparently seeking support from the agitating bloc to form a new Government under his leadership.

Speaker Onsari Gharti during a meeting with CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the latter's residence in Kathmandu urged Dahal to create conducive environment for political consensus.

CPN-Maoist Center Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal tabled the no-trust motion in the Parliament against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. NC leader Bimalendra Nidhi seconded the no-confidence motion tabled by Dahal.

Kathmandu

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the National Assembly of the All Nepal National Free Students Union-Revolutionary Kathmandu assured that the new Government would address demands of the dissenting Madhesh-centric political parties, Tharus and indigenous groups

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal elected as the new Prime Minister of Nepal. While total 573 lawmakers had cast their votes in the poll, 363 were for Dahal.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a meeting of the Chief Secretary, the Secretaries of all the Ministries and other top officials held at the at Singha Durbar urged top Government officials to work as per policy of 'forgive and forget' dealing with cases from the decade-long Maoist insurgency.

Kathmandu

CPN-Maoist Center at a meeting of the party's central office at the private residence of Prime Minister and the party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal August 20 constituted a support mechanism for running the Government.

Kathmandu

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal meeting a delegation representing injured and disabled members of the then PLA in Kathmandu assured free treatment to injured members of former PLA.

Kavre District

10 CPN-UML leaders and cadres were injured as cadres of the YCL attacked them in Gokule VDC of Kavre District.

Kathmandu

CPN-Maoist Center Chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal launching a book on the life of late Maoist leader Bhakti Prasad Pandey in Kathmandu asked all Maoist forces and leaders to come together to safeguard achievements of the armed conflict.