‘Kishenji & Nepal’s Maoists met secretly in India last month’

This is the first such meeting after the two sides met under the aegis of the CCOMPOSA (Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organisations of South Asia),a grouping in which Indian and Nepali Maoist parties are the major constituents.

The meeting,according to the report,was a follow-up to a resolution of the CPN-M Central Committee three months ago to hold regular interactions between CCOMPOSA and its global umbrella group,the Revolutionnaire International.

While Indian Maoist leader Ganapathi recently termed Nepali Maoists as “revisionist”,Nepali Maoist leaders,including Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai,have said there is no working relationship between the two parties.

The CPN-M has not yet said anything in public about the recent meeting in India. Sigdel,also a member of the CPN-M’s foreign cell,is now back in Nepal after participating in the meeting.

The daily quoted Sigdel as saying that “only routine issues” were discussed and that the two parties decided to “establish a relationship” to better “understand each other.”