Kathmandu: The Coordinator of the Nationalists-Republican Front Mr. Chandra Prakash Gajurel (popularly known as CP) bluntly claims that the Communist Government led by Comrade KP Sharma Oli “arrested” him on Sunday December 29/19 in a “planned” manner.

This he said while talking to a select group of Nepali media men at the Reporters Club upon his release from the Police custody this Monday December 30/19.

“We had a scheduled program to register our protest for the Government’s dilly-dallying as regards the acquiring back the encroached upon land in an around Kalapani by the Indian establishment and that even if the administration knew that we are having a protest program, some police personnel arrested me”, said Gajurel.

He further said that when his group tried to meet the Prime Minister, he was told that the PM was in a state of Bed Rest and thus we preferred to meet the DPM Ishwar Pokhrel and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal but, as the luck would have it, we were arrested, explained the former Maoists leader who spent some ten years in India along with his supreme leader Comrade Prachanda.

“The manner we were arrested by the Police administration does tell that it was a panned arrest”, said Gajurel.

Notably, home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal and CP Gajurel both were top leaders of the India sponsored Maoists led People’s War and both the leaders were enjoying “Indian shelter” in a planned way.

To recall, CP Gajurel was arrested in Chennai while boarding a flight to London some years back.

It was a time when Gajurel and his colleagues were residing in India.

What puzzles the smart Nepali observers that how come CP Gajurel who survived for a decade or so in India enjoying the Indian shelter with state protection could oppose India now?

Isn’t India in full knowledge of who Minister Badal and Gajurel were in effect?

However, over these years, let’s presume that these former Maoists leaders may have turned staunch nationalists who too were pained when the Indian military forces have occupied Nepali land mass in and around Kalapani area?

That’s the former Maoists leaders have changed for the better and wish to serve mother Nepal now. Congratulations. Mother Nepal has reasons to smile.

However, it remains yet a matter of mystery as to why a fire brand Maoists leader Gajurel preferred to join the Nationalists-Republican Front?

To recall, Gajurel continues to be a leader of the Revolutionary Maoists whose numerical strength is depleting each day.

His party boss is Mohan Baidya Pokhrel.

Winding up his speech at the Reporters Club, Chandra Prakash Gajurel said that the ruling Nepal Communist party is at its best an expanded version of the former UML.