KHOTANG, NOV 09 - Turning down its central leadership’s decision to withdraw the declaration of autonomous states—a part of the UCPN (Maoist) protest programme—the Maoist-affiliated Kirat State Committee (KSC) declared the Kirat Autonomous State amid a function at Khotang district headquarters Diktel on Monday. Maoist politburo member and the KSC in-charge, Gopal Kirati, declared six eastern hill districts—Khotang, Bhojpur, Okhaldhunga, Solukhumbu, Sankhuwasabha and Udayapur—as Kirat Autonomous State. Speaking at the function, Kirati said the autonomous state was declared on the basis of ethnicity, language and culture of the people living in the region.
Stating that the autonomous state was only for those who struggled for communal harmony and equality, Kirati warned that the door of Kirat Autonomous State would always remain closed to Indian expansionists, feudals and capita-lists. The KSC, however, did not announce the names of its office bearers. “We declared it as a symbolic protest. We will soon appoint office bearers,” he added. He said KSC was searching for a state capital though the state was declared from Khotang. According to him, Pandhare of Bhojpur was a potential capital.
Kirati further claimed they had declared the autonomous state with the consent of party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal. “I talked to him over the phone. He asked us to declare the state even if the scheduled protest programme had been withdrawn,” he said. Maoist lawmakers, leaders and party activists from these six districts gathered the programme. They took out a protest rally that moved around the town before converging into a mass meeting to declare the state.
Stating that the autonomous state was only for those who struggled for communal harmony and equality, Kirati warned that the door of Kirat Autonomous State would always remain closed to Indian expansionists, feudals and capita-lists. The KSC, however, did not announce the names of its office bearers. “We declared it as a symbolic protest. We will soon appoint office bearers,” he added. He said KSC was searching for a state capital though the state was declared from Khotang. According to him, Pandhare of Bhojpur was a potential capital.
Kirati further claimed they had declared the autonomous state with the consent of party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal. “I talked to him over the phone. He asked us to declare the state even if the scheduled protest programme had been withdrawn,” he said. Maoist lawmakers, leaders and party activists from these six districts gathered the programme. They took out a protest rally that moved around the town before converging into a mass meeting to declare the state.
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