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Prachanda’s Interview
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
In the interview given to the reporters of the ‘Radio Nepal’ and put on air on Sunday, November 30, 2008, Prime Minister Prachanda told the reporters that the Maoists’ government during the one hundred days has done a lot of major things such as the peace process has been put on the right track following the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’, the army integration has also been on track, the government has sent money to the field for the relief of the victims after the budget was passed by the Constituent Assembly. Minister for Information and Communication made public the 24-page report on the progress made by the government during the one hundred days.
Prime Minister Prachanda said that the major problems he has been facing are the corruption and traditional bureaucratic networks. He felt that fighting against these evils has been more challenging than the people’s war. However, he said that his government would fight against those evils to the finish and give the Nepalese people the feelings of the changes brought by his government.
Prime Minister Prachanda also said that he spent almost half of the time in the government during the last one hundred days on preparing for his foreign trips and visiting the foreign countries. He said that his foreign trips had been very useful, as he had opportunities to make the position of his government on all matters of interest clear to the foreign dignitaries and other people in the interaction he had with them at the time of his visits.
Regarding the repeated blame of breaking up the previous agreements and the politics of consensus former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been putting on him, Prachanda said that immediately after the election for the Constituent Assembly, and the Maoists have garnered the largest number of seats in the newly elected Constituent Assembly, senior and very old politician Girija Prasad Koirala started breaking up the previous agreements putting forward various conditions on working together.
Concerning the various things different political leaders have been saying in the public, Prime Minister Prachanda said his government would not care about what the leaders had been telling in public but would follow the previous agreements, understandings and the Interim Constitution for bringing drastic changes in the country.
