Nepal: Maoists Announce New Youth Wing Formation

Members of the YCL in Nepal

This report comes from Himalyan Times.

KATHMANDU: The UCPN-Maoist on Tuesday announced that it has formed a new youth front–People’s Volunteers Mobilisation Bureau– and said it will focus on “development work and people’s security.”

Maoist Politburo member Netra Bikram Chand is the coordinator of the new organisation that has been set up taking up members of Young Communist League, Maoists’ student wing and the disqualified Maoist combatants. Maoist central leader Devendra Poudel and YCL in-charge Ganesh Man Pun are also in it,.

A programme was organised to announce the formation of the Bureau at the Maoist headquarters in Perisdanda in the Capital this afternoon.