Caretaker Prime Minister Prachanda of Nepal labelled his resignation a "missile against foreign brokers and interventionist forces" as well as regressive domestic elements to establish civilian supremacy, state-run newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Sunday.
Inaugurating the first national conference of the Society of the Families of the Disappeared Fighters (SFDF) in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Saturday, Prachanda, also chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) said, "I am proud of my resignation. It has been a missile against foreign brokers and their interference, regressive and national-capitulating forces. My resignation truly expressed the spirit of thousands of disappeared, wounded and martyrs of our fight against feudalism."
He said, "Nepali national self-respect is also inherent in my resignation. Civilian supremacy is also related to national liberation movement."
He said that despite being a proletarian party, his party the UCPN-M fought for materializing the capitalist agenda of the Constituent Assembly (CA) election last Aril and capitalist republic and that it was fighting for civilian supremacy.
"It's all because those who call themselves capitalist democrats kneeled down before feudal monarchy and foreign regressive forces. And it's ironical that they are opposing us while we are fighting for their agenda," Prachanda said.
The UCPN-M emerged from the CA election as the single largest party. The CA, at its first meeting on May 28, 2008 declared Nepala federal democratic republic.
He said that those who were supporting military supremacy were in the footsteps of former king Gyanendra and that they intended to initiate a civil war in the country and impose a state of emergency. "But our party is ready to make any sacrifice for civilian supremacy, establishing peace, and institutionalizing democracy."
"Referring to the other parties' attempts to form the government, he claimed that money had already been used to buy the CA members as in the parliamentarian period," the report said.
"Only this morning, a leader of a party informed me he was facing difficulty to save the CA members of his party from horse trading," Prachanda said on Saturday at the program.
"I did not resign because I was emotional," Prachanda said. "I resigned because I have a great faith in people and their sense of national self-respect."
Himal Sharma, general secretary of Maoist affiliated student union and a person who had been incarcerated for 27 months in the Bhairab Nath battalion in Kathmandu, blamed army chief for directly involving in disappearing people. "I want to know where are others detained with me at Bhairab Nath barrack," he said.
The Nepali government led by the UCPN-M last Sunday decided to sack Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal without the coalition's consensus. The decision led to coalition parties pulling out of the government.
Following the government's decision tabled, President Ram Baran Yadav faxed a special instruction to CoAS Katawal, asking him to continue in his office, which the UCPN-M leaders termed as unconstitutional. Prachanda, hence, resigned from the post of the prime minister on Monday, reported Xinhua.
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