Top Maoists accuse Prachanda of promoting corruption: report

He has been accused of promoting nepotism and lack of transparency in financial matters.

Nepal Maoist supremo Prachanda has been accused of promoting corruption,nepotism and lack of transparency in financial matters of the party in internal documents ahead of a key conclave of the organisation.

In separate documents ahead of Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’s (UCPN-Maoist) extended central committee meeting on November 21,hardline leader and Vice chairman Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran’ and Baburam Bhattarai,the deputy of the party,have accused Prachanda of promoting corruption,nepotism and lack of transparency in financial matters,according to the Nepali Nagarik daily.

The report said these allegations are contained in the separate policy documents that the two senior leaders have submitted to the party headquarters three months ago as they refused to endorse the political document presented by Prachanda,the Chairman of UCPN-Maoist.

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According to the documents,a neo-feudal group has emerged within the party due to the protection given by the party leadership to smugglers,illegal traders and the corrupt people.

They have alleged that the 56-year-old former prime minister has accumulated crores of rupees through corrupt practices which has resulted in rise of neo-feudalism within the party,the report said.

It is interesting to note that Vaidya and Bhattarai,who belongs to ideologically opposite poles,have united in criticising Prachanda during a meeting convened to prepare for their party’s extended central committee meeting in Gorkha district of western Nepal.

Negative message has spread among the party cadres due to allegation of horse trading (during the Prime Ministerial election) and lack of transparency in the party’s accounting system,the daily quoted Bhattarai’s paper as saying.