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Election Manifesto of Maoists
By KTM Reporter in Kathmandu
On March 07, 2008, the Maoists’ leaders made public their election manifesto called “Election Commitment Paper” in Kathmandu, as an election campaign of their party to the election for a Constituent Assembly. The paper defended its 10-year long people’s war starting in 1996 and ending in 2006, and lauded the 19-day people’s movement in April 2006. It also said that the Maoists would craft a new constitution that would guarantee the territorial integrity, national independence, human rights, press freedom, proportional participation of all the communities in the state agencies.
The manifesto proposes to restructure Nepal into 11 federal states and three sub-states giving the center the authority of safeguarding the international border, military management, foreign policy, inter-state trade, monetary policy and central bank, customs and tax, large hydroelectric projects, railways, airways, national highways, central university and so on, and proposes chairman Prachanda as the first president of republican Nepal to be appointed by the first session of the Constituent Assembly.
The paper foresees to increase the per capita income of the Nepalese people from the current $ 300 to $3,000 in ten years and to $10,000 in twenty years, and make Nepal one of the most prosperous countries in the world in forty years.
Highlights of the manifesto published in “The Rising Nepal” of March 08:
Political:
• Establishment of autonomous and pro-people federal democratic republic
• Eleven federal states with three sub-federal parts
• Common language, geography, economy, and psychological outlook that in totality make up a group or nationality as the basis of federal structure
• Directly elected president with a maximum of two terms tenure
• Education, health, shelter, employment, and food security as fundamental rights
• Equal rights to women in all sectors of life including parental property
• Proportionate participation of women, communities, religious groups, and geographical regions
• Restructuring of security sector, legal system, judiciary and administrative mechanism
• Revolutionary land reform based on the principle of 'right of land to the tiller'
• Referendum on issues of long-term impact on the nation
• End of British Gorkha recruitment tradition
• Annulment of 1950 Nepal-India treaty and arrangement of new ones on the basis of Panchasheel (five principles)
• New national army with the integration of Nepal army and People's Liberation Army
• Right to self-determination
Economical
• New transitional economic policy that will raise the country to the rank of a developed nation in 20 years
• Public-private partnership and campaign for cooperatives
• Development of socialist oriented national capitalism
• Generation of 10,000 megawatt of electricity within 10 years
• Special banking facility for cottage and small industries
• High priority to tourism
• Telephone service in all the VDCs within this year
Social
• Eradication of illiteracy within five years
• Free basic health services to all
• Provision of pure drinking water within five years
• Declaring Nepal a untouchable-free country
• Special program for the families of the martyrs of People's War
• Guarantee of human rights as per the international standards
• Youth commission
