UCPN-M is anti federalist party: Lekhi

KAILALI: Chairman of the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), Raj Kumar Lekhi said the Unified CPN-Maoist was an anti-federalist force.

Speaking at a press conference organised here today, he said the UCPN-Maoist leaders have talked about federalism superficially just to deceive the general public but in reality, they do not want federalism in the country.

He said the UCPN-Maoist leaders are just gossiping about many things and cheating the Nepali people. The UCPN-Maoist leaders have been in fact betraying the nation and its people.

NEFIN Chairman Lekhi said, "NEFIN is against ‘One Madhesh, One Province’, and one Tharuhat province as well.”

"It is good to make multi-states addressing the rights of the indigenous nationalities and backward people, " he added.

President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, and major four political parties including the UCPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress and CPN-UML did not want the fresh Constituent Assembly elections, he said, blaming that President Dr. Yadav and Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai both have been caretaker, now.

In a different note, he said life threat to Gopal Budhathoki, the editor of Sanghu Weekly, was an anti-press freedom act and demanded that the person who threatened Budhathoki be brought to book.