After Nepal’s first Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda announced his resignation for an escalating quarrel with allies and President Ram Baran Yadav, a senior cabinet minister cabinet blamed India for the debacle. He said New Delhi’s bureaucrats had committed an “enormous blunder.”

Quoting Maoist finance minister Baburam Bhattarai: “India supported the army and the president in their unconstitutional acts against democratic forces. It was an enormous blunder. It is going to cost India all the goodwill it earned by supporting the pro-democracy movement during King Gyanendra’s regime.”

Baburam Bhattarai is a Maoist leader and he had earlier said that he had learnt the ABC of Marxism in New Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University. Here Bhattarai was a doctorate student in the 1980s. He blamed the “bureaucrats” in New Delhi for the fall of the Maoist government there in Nepal.

He further said, “The politicians are busy with the elections and the decisions are being taken by blundering bureaucrats. The Indian people and parties should take note of this and India should review its bureaucracy policy.”