As Nepal’s political parties struggled to reach a compromise to end the standoff between the government and the former rebels, the Maoist chief has said he was ready to dissolve the party’s paramilitary organisation and facilitate the integration of its combatants with the Army.
Mr Prachanda, who is also the supreme commander of the Maoists’ People’s Liberation Army, said his party was ready to dissolve the paramilitary structure of the Young Communist League (YCL), the youth wing of the party, within 4-5 days and integrate and rehabilitate the Maoist combatants within four months.
“We’ll dismantle the barracks of the Young Communist League within four-five days. We are ready to break the relation of the party with the cantonments,” he underlined.
Unified CPN-Maoist is also ready to return the land and property seized during the decade-long insurgency as per the demands of the other political parties at the earliest, Mr Prachanda said during an interaction with members of the civil society in the capital on Wednesday.
Mr Prachanda said the party was ready to categorise the Maoist combatants by mid-June in a bid to speed up the integration of the former rebels.