Kathmandu, Nov. 24: Amidst the Indian government’s growing concern about the crisis in Nepal and a renewed war on its own Maoist guerrillas, Nepal’s Maoist supremo, Mr Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, 55, has identified India as the arch enemy and urged the party to brace for a war with the southern neighbour, reports said on Wednesday.
Mr Prachanda blames New Delhi for the fall of his short-lived government last year and his failure to win the subsequent prime ministerial election, has begun predicting military intervention in Nepal by India and has advocated a people’s revolt at the sixth Maoist plenum.
“Compradors, feudal forces and Indian expansionism are our arch enemies,” a local daily reported him as saying.
“Now we have to be ready for a national war against India and begin a people’s revolt for that,” he said. Less than two months remain to address the fate of the Maoists’ 20,000-strong People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with their UN monitors leaving Nepal in mid-January.