Security Forces Intensify Surveillance on Key Leaders of CPN (Maoist Centre) Ahead of Elections

In anticipation of the elections scheduled for Falgun 21, security agencies have increased surveillance on the second-tier key leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). Following the arrest of General Secretary Dharmendra Bastola, the police have become active in monitoring the top leaders who are currently running the party's activities.The CPN (Maoist Centre), along with the Revolutionary Communist Party of Nepal, the Scientific Socialist Communist Party of Nepal, and the Communist Party of Nepal, under the Central Joint Struggle Committee, have adopted a policy of boycotting the elections, arguing that the elections announced by the government lack justification....