No agreement on restoring all police posts: Mahara

Maoist spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara has refuted Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's claim that an agreement had been reached with the Maoist chairman on re-establishing police posts displaced during the decade-long insurgency.

Maoist spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara

Talking with Kantipur TV, a private TV station on Saturday, Mahara said that there was no agreement between Koirala and Prachanda to re-establish police posts across the country.

"We have agreed to re-establish police posts in very sensitive areas only on the basis of mutual understanding, not across the country, before constituting an interim government," he added.

Talking to journalists at his hometown Biratnagar on Friday, Premier Koirala had said that Prachanda had agreed to re-establish displaced police posts and to send VDC secretaries back to their postings to expedite constituent assembly election procedures.

However, a group of Maoists thrashed five policemen stationed at the recently restored police post at Rajahar of Nawalparasi and vandalized the premises when the 15 policemen stationed there refused to evacuate the post. nepalnews.com pb Dec 31 06

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