Lamjung — Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, Chair of the CPN (Maoist Centre), has sharply questioned the formation of the current government. Speaking at a public gathering in Bhorletar, Lamjung, on Saturday, he alleged that the Congress–UML coalition was created under the pressure and influence of brokers and middlemen.
According to Prachanda, senior leaders of major parties were taken overnight to hotels and private residences, where financial inducements and intimidation were used to form the government. “This is not a government voluntarily created by Congress and UML; it is a government set up by brokers who manipulated leaders at their fingertips,” he told the crowd.
He pointed to capitalist intermediaries, remarking that groups who earn billions through commissions but neither establish industries nor generate jobs have now become dominant in state affairs. “They get rich overnight, while the people remain poor. This tendency has harmed the nation,” Prachanda stated.
Prachanda said his party was forced out of government through what he described as a constitutional breach. “We were ousted by sheer numbers. Now we will go door-to-door, mobilize the public, and raise a movement against corruption,” he declared.
He also revealed efforts to reunite divided Maoist factions, saying positive signals had already emerged. He expressed confidence that broader unification would soon be possible. Prachanda further criticized the rise of “populism” in the country, stressing that new polarization was necessary to counter it.
On Saturday evening, Prachanda entered Madhya Nepal Municipality and visited the Ishaneshwar Mahadev Temple development site. On Sunday morning, before leaving for Gorkha, he met the family of Maoist martyr Rammani Bhattarai. Party leaders including Vice-Chairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Agni Prasad Sapkota, and General Secretary Dev Gurung are participating in the campaign.
