In clear defiance of the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA), the Comunist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) has reactivated the people’s revolutionary council, known as the parallel Government, that rocks the very basis of the peace process.The decision to reactivate the council was taken at a recent meeting of the party in which CPN-M chief Prachanda and PRC convener Baburam Bhattarai were present, said party sources. Both the PRC and the parallel courts had been dissolved along with Maoists, officially declaring end of their politics of violence that had resulted in the loss of more than 13,000 lives during their 11-year insurgency beginning 1996 — the day CPA was signed by Prime Minister G P Koirala on behalf of the Government and Prachanda on behalf of the insurgents in the presence of almost all the diplomatic corps present in Kathmandu in November 2006.The revived PRC will have Bhattarai as its convener along with other 33 members — including all Maoist ministers in the Government apart from prominent combatants like Nand Kishore Pun and the much feared chief of the Young Communist League (YCL), Ganeshman Pun.A party release said that the PRC has been revived with a view to sort out people's problems at district and local levels besides carrying forward development activities since political parties have not been able to agree on forming local bodies. The revival that comes with continued extortion and attack on political rivals further increases the uncertainty towards holding elections to the Constituent Assembly in April.The Nepali Congress, which heads the ruling coalition, has decried the Maoists for not having honoured the CPA and the code of conduct. It condemned the attack on former minister Dilendra Badu by YCL in western Nepal on Tuesday. Badu, who sustained serious injuries as he jumped down from the top of a three-storey building as the YCL cadres set ablaze the house, is undergroing treatment at a Government hospital in the capital.
