'Should go to people to safeguard their rights'

Kathmandu - Leader of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Prachanda-Nepal faction and former Finance Minister Surendra Pandey has said that they could again go for protests for protecting and promoting the rights established from people's sacrifices. Addressing a programme organised by NCP Dhading-Kathmandu Liaison Forum in Kathmandu on Saturday, Pandey said that people should protest against the wrongdoers adding that no one is above the system, laws and constitution.

On the occasion, he argued the NCP has not been divided stating that the party was formed after the unification of the then CPN (UML) and CPN (Maoist-Centre). "We are not divided. Out of 435 central committee members of the NCP, there is the participation of 294 members in the recent (central committee) meeting. So, we are the main party and the mainstream," Pandey added. Leader Pandey also urged the party leaders and cadres not to get troubled as the constitutional bodies take decisions on the basis of evidences and laws.

Also speaking at the programme, NCP election commission's member Bishnu Pukar Shrestha and NCP's central committee member Kalpana Dhamala said that there was no option but to go for people once again to safeguard the achievements obtained by Nepali citizens in the past 70 years adding that the achievements of the revolution were likely to collapse. NCP's Bagmati Province Chairman Narayan Dahal said that the current battle in the party was between forward-looking force and regressive force.