Prachanda: Not In Tune With The April Revolution

Prachanda lives under the illusion that he engineered the April Revolution. Prachanda did not engineer it, Girija did not engineer it.

Someone who has spent the better part of his life espousing that "power flows through the barrel of a gun" could not have engineered a revolution that has become a glowing example of what a non-violent revolution should be.

Prachanda claimed to have taken over the countryside before April. The April Revolution primarily happened in Kathmandu and the urban areas. The movement in April was not launched by Prachanda. It was not even launched by the seven parties. The seven parties started with a four day long protest program. But the people's response to that program surprised the seven party leaders, all of whom stayed home for the larger part of those 19 historic days.

On days 3, 4 and 5, when it was obvious the people were in for a decisive struggle that both Girija and Mahara jumped in to take credit. The credit goes to the people, not to Girija or Mahara.

The idea of a continuous movement is not in the books of the seven parties, not in that of the Maoists. The April Revolution embodied the idea of a continuous movement.

There was a rallying cry for a republic. That was the street slogan of the April Revolution. But the seven party alliance had not collectively come around to the slogan of a republic before April, or during April, and it has not today. And so that disconnect shows the seven party alliance can take only so much credit for the April Revolution.

The Maoists have been for a republic, but they can not take credit for the street slogans of the April Revolution either. The peaceful protestors were not inspired by the Maoists in their call for a republic.

The credit goes to the people. The April Revolution is proof the people will not put up with any kind of dictatorship. It is the April Revolution that tells me the people of Nepal will not put up with any dictatorial tendencies that people like Prachanda might still harbor.

The Nepali people will get democracy, and they will get peace, and by the way, Gyanendra, Prachanda, and Girija can go to hell. That was the message of the April Revolution.

Prachanda says all he has to do is issue one more call and the people will come out into the streets all over again. He is daydreaming. Again? As if the people came out in April because Prachanda so suggested?

I admire Girija. He has been the only Nepali who has been a major part of every single democracy movement in Nepal's history. It is just that one has to ask as to why there were so many! BP Koirala was naive at statecraft, that's why. He took the army away from the Rana prime minister and handed it over to the Shaha king in 2007 B.S., that's why.

I admire Prachanda and Baburam trying not to be dogmatic like all those failed communists of the previous century. But their newfound commitment to multi-party democracy, rule of law, and human rights has to be total and unconditional. All their cadres have to do the same. And those few goondas at the local levels who don't are not a party discipline problem, they are a law enforcement problem, and have to be dealt with as such.

Prachanda and Baburam have to stay committed to multi-party democracy, rule of law, and human rights with or without the seven parties, with or without the ceasefire agreement. Power through the barrel of a gun is over for good, forever.

I want Prachanda to run for president of the country. If he does not, he is chicken. He says he just wants to stay on as party chairperson. I think he is scared of facing the people. He enjoys his dictatorship inside his party too much. I think he is scared of being defeated at the ballot box.

The country will become a republic. And it will get a new constitution. And there will be elections for a parliament and a president. The election for president has to be direct. And I want to see Prachanda run.

There can be no compromise on free and fair elections to a constituent assembly. If the elections are not free, the exercise will be meaningless. It is better not to have such elections than to have them under a cloud of fear.

I am alarmed by the talk of a militia doing law enforcement work during the elections. All armed Maoists will be in barracks. I don't care if you don't call them soldiers and instead call them militia, no gun-wielding Maoist can be seen anywhere outside their barracks. Or there is no point in going for the constituent assembly elections. We might as well prepare for a military confrontation with the Maoists. People and parties that are committed to multi-party democracy, rule of law, and human rights can legitimately pick up arms against people and parties that are not so committed. The state army has been brought under civilian control, the royal control part is over. And there will be total international support to our side, moral as well as logistical.

I am not at all suggesting we should prepare for another round of civil war. What I am saying is we should negotiate for free and fair elections to the constituent assembly from a position of strength. We are in a great position of strength.

Prachanda's fantassy is that the Indian masses are waiting for him to save them. There are 9,000 armed Maoists in India. India has over a billion people. 9,000 versus 1,200,000,000.

I actally admire some of the political and social agenda of the Maoists, especially to do with social justice. I look down upon elements of the seven party alliance that have not competed with the Maoists on the social justice agenda. My message to the Maoists is, just get rid of the gun, focus on your social justice agenda, and you will do great electorally. And I am not saying surrender. I am okay with confining all armed Maoists to barracks. And I mean all, not just some.

The message of the April Revolution was democracy and peace. The message was a republic. The message was social justice. The message was political honesty. If Prachanda has relapses to his old messages, he is not in tune.

When Prachanda talks of a world revolution, I am not scared. I myself want Nepal to export the April Revolution to all countries that are not yet democracies. But we are talking strictly non-violence. Power flows through street protests, power flows through the ballot box. Power does not flow through the barrel of a gun. Prachanda needs to understand that once and for all. He has no choice, if he is politically pragmatic.

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