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CPN-Maoist Targeting On Life Of Prachanda
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 14, 2013: at an exclusive interview given to the local Avenunes television, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda said that the CPN-Maoist planted an ambush in Belauri in Kanchanpur far west of Nepal targeting him on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, and Chairman Prachanda narrowly escaped from the bomb went off around 10 feet off the road, according to the Xinhua news.
"To make the November 19 election a success and promulgate a new constitution, I am ready to die," Chairman Prachanda said. "Baidyaji is trying to kill me. If my vehicle was trapped in ambush, my death was inevitable. But, security personnel managed to escape the ambush," Chairman Prachanda said in the interview.
However, CPN-Maoist top leaders deny their involvement in such attacks.
As the election date draws closer, Nepal is witnessing an upsurge in the violence because of the 33-party alliance lead by the CPN-Maoist has declared the shutdown, and started off setting fire on the vehicles, and setting off bombs to interrupt the elections on November 19, 2013.
The CPN-Maoist along with 33 parties has been targeting Prachanda, as the CPN-Maoist has been declaring the shutdown wherever Prachanda has to address the election rally.
The CPN-Maoist led by Mohan Baidya split from the UCPN-Maoist last year.
