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Badal Disclosed Maoists’ View on Democracy
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On December 07, 2008, Senior Maoist leader and Defense Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ disclosed that the democracy the CPN-Maoist envisaged unlike the democracy in India and the United States has the features such as people of the same categories would compete for elected offices. He said that the rich and the poor people competed for the same positions in the Indian and American democracy often the rich people winning the elections.
Badal said that the recent national convention of the Maoist cadres formulated the principles of such democracy in Nepal.
He also said that India and the US claim for the status of the preserver of democracy in the world but that was not for the weak and the poor, as there was no chance of the poor and the weak getting elected for the public positions in their democracies. He said that the to-be-crafted new constitution would define competitive politics in a new way ending the dominance of rich and strong people in democracy.
He stated the example of women competing with women and poor with poor in other words people of the same status would compete with one another for elected public offices. He said that new democracy would not be the democracy of landlords, corrupt and feudal lords.
He said that other features of new democracy were non-interference of foreign powers in the Nepalese business and the rights and identities of Nepalese people of different castes, languages and classes.
