Dr. Bhattarai says Maoists discussing to drop their party name
In what appears to be desperate effort to embrace the international community, the finance minister and senior Maoist ideologue Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has said that his party is discussing to change their name from Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists.
According to Kantipur daily, he said so when talking with an editor of Washington Times in Washington DC.
When the editor asked if the time had come to change the name of CPN-M as Mao was becoming ‘old’ even in China, Dr. Bhattarai replied in affirmative, and, added, “We are discussing this within the party since past one year. The general convention will make a decision on that.”
He also said that they coined the name CPN-M as it was quite revolutionary when fighting against monarchy.
The Finance Minister is in America to attend the annual meeting of the board of governors of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. nepalnews.com sd Oct 16 08
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