By IRNA
New Delhi : While threatening to storm the royal palace in Kathmandu, Nepal Maoist supremo Prachanda accused India and America of hatching conspiracies to finish off the Maoists.
Prachanda warned that the royal palace would be stormed if they hatched conspiracy to disrupt the polls.
“Conspiracies are being hatched to finish off the Maoists.
America, India, the royalists and many other regressive and feudal forces are conspiring against us,” the CPN-Maoist leader told party workers at an election meeting in Kathmandu Thursday, Asian Age reported here Friday.
“We want to rebuild a new Nepal through the Constituent Assembly.
But we will be compelled to seize Narayanhiti (Royal Palace) if we are defeated through conspiracy and our initiative to build that new Nepal is vanquished,” said Prachanda.
Accusing the other parties of playing into the hands of the foreign forces, he alleged that the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML were being supported by India and America.
Prachanda said the people should take note that their rivals are not the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML but India and USA, who were out to defeat the former rebels and back the party of their choice in the polls.
The 53-year-old former school teacher underlined his party’s stand of accepting the result of the election if it is free and fair, claiming that his party will be victorious in electoral battle.
Even as urging the Maoist cadres, particularly its youth wing, the Young Communist League, to be restrained so as to make the April 10 election a success, Prachanda warned that he will not accept the poll result if the former rebels are defeated through “conspiracy”.
Maoists have been accused of systematic intimidation of voters and rival party workers during the campaign, and some fear they could turn more violent if the elections go against them.