NC’s Strategic
Approach
THE ruling Nepali Congress (NC) party, to
address the ongoing Maoist insurgency, has unveiled its views, approach and strategy. In
an all-party meet in Lalitpur the other day, Spokesperson of the NC, Narahari Acharya,
dwelled on the approach and strategy concerning the Maoist problem by analytically
presenting the beginning and growth of Maoist insurgency, its nature, affiliation, modus
operandi and goal. The NC termed the Maoists’ activities as terrorist activities
perpetrated by extreme rightist and extreme leftist elements for their vested interests.
The NC strategy paper, furthermore, stated that the Maoist insurgency’s ultimate
objective is to defame, sabotage and overthrow multi-party democracy. Democracy allows all
to carry out political activities—but in an open and peaceful manner. The
Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal has guaranteed these rights to all Nepalese citizens.
When opportunities are provided to carry out political activities peacefully and openly,
the Maoists’ violent activities like intimidating and killing people and robbing and
destroying public property are definitely against the national interest, people’s
rights and democracy. In democracy, the rights of all sections of society are protected.
Similarly, activities to defame and sabotage multi-party democracy will not only be
constructed as unconstitutional attempts to deny the people their fundamental democratic
rights but also deemed as unlawful under the existing laws. As such, the party’s
analysis and strategy to solve this problem are correct and appropriate. Moreover, since
it has been directed against democracy, all political parties and people with faith in the
present constitution must counter this insurgency collectively.
The government and political parties have
already agreed that the Maoist insurgency is a national problem and has to be tackled
accordingly in the larger interest of the country, democracy and the people. The
government has already taken a two-pronged approach for the resolution of the problem.
First, through peaceful dialogue. Secondly, if the Maoists still refuse to hold talks and
continue with their violence, the government has given a clear warning to them that it is
duty bound to use other means to contain their terrorist activities. Since the present
approach and strategy were unveiled by the ruling NC in the all-party meet, they are the
government’s approach and strategy to contain the insurgency. Now that all political
parties seemed to have agreed to the ruling NC’s approach and strategy, they can also
be termed as national-level approach and strategy against Maoist insurgency. However,
since the government’s efforts alone may not be sufficient to effectively solve the
festering problem, it looks to reason for all political parties and people, in the larger
interest of the nation and democracy, to extend their full cooperation and strong support
to the government.
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