Nepalese Royalists Fitting Welcome for Indian Communists

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Black flags, stones greet Yechury in Nepal New Delhi, Sept 29, IRNA

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A five party delegation from India led by CPI-M leader Sitaram

Yechuri was greeted with black flag demonstration and stone pelting

by hundreds of pro-monarchy activists upon its arrival in Kathmandu.

 

Shouting anti-India slogans, a crowd of about 200 demonstrators

threw stones at the vehicles emerging from the Tribhuvan

International Airport carrying the seven-member delegation, which

came to meet local political leaders and extend support to their

struggle for restoration of democracy.

 

No one was injured in the attack. "We are here to see the situation

and to extend full support of people of India to the movement for

restoration of democracy being launched by the seven party

alliance," Yechuri said upon arrival at Kathmandu yesterday.

 

"It is up to the people of Nepal to decide how they want to restore

democracy," he said.

 

"It was an orchestrated attack," Yechuri said, "We were prepared for

protests because being from a democratic country, we believe in the

right to hold protests but this was different."

"What do you do in a country where the government itself

orchestrates stone pelting attacks," asked Sagar Shumnshere Jung

Bahadur Rana, in charge of foreign affairs at the Nepali Congress

(Democratic) party of the deposed prime minister, Sher Bahadur

Deuba.

 

The Indian delegation also includes D. Raja of the CPI, D. P.

 

Tripathy of the Nationalist Congress Party, Chandra Shekhar Sahu of

CPI, Surendra Mohan and Manju Mohan of the Janta Dal-S and Sunilam

of the Samajwadi Party. They were accompanied by Sunil Barua of the

South Asia Foundation.

 

The Indian leaders will be meeting position leader, Girija Prasad

Koirala, Deuba's wife Dr Arju Deuba and the wife of former minister

Prakash Man Singh.

 

Both Singh and Deuba have been jailed by the current government on

charges of corruption. The delegation is likely to visit Deuba in

prison on Friday.

 

"The objective of our visit is to strengthen democracy everywhere in

the world, including Nepal," Yechuri said.

 

"It is up to the Nepalese to decide what kind of political structure

they want."

The visit has generated intense heat with the government media

carrying out a propaganda against the visitors, calling it an

interference with Nepal's internal matters.

 

The government is also calling it an attempt by India to oust

monarchy in Nepal.

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