Our recent activities, military and otherwise, confirm that we have successfully entered the first phase of the strategic offensive. The attacks in Kailali and Banke in the west, Dhading in the central region and Dhanusha in the east have shaken the old regime. Our operations in areas near Kathmandu show that the future is in our favour. Our party did not begin the offensive against Indian expansionism all of a sudden. Right from the general convention 13 years ago as the United People's Front, we have raised the issue of the Indian expansionist interference and high-handedness in Nepal. We have stressed on liberation from such a situation but during a revolution, we do not attack our enemies simultaneously, we go about it strategically.

Till date, our enemy has been the monarchical military fascists and it is against them that we have focused our movement. This fascist system has existed because it is backed by foreign powers. When we centralise our attack against the monarchy, we need to ready ourselves to resist the expansionist and imperialist forces behind it. We have a policy of national resistance against possible foreign interference. This does not mean we are straying from taking aim at the monarchy. Our party is principle-based and responsible. Our position against India was not impulsive, it was a strategic decision. Even when India did not arrest and extradite our party members, we were against an unequal treaty like that of 1950.

We believe that unequal relations with India have existed since the signing of the Sugauli Treaty during the colonial era. Unless it is corrected, Nepal will never be self-reliant. Our position is based on historical facts, political and economic realities. To interpret this as a reaction to our comrades' arrests by the Indian authority would be na?ve. As far as our attitude towards India is concerned, we will be more sensitive and responsible when we have state power. We will end the historical semi-colonial relations through diplomacy and peaceful means to establish new relations based on equality and Panchasheel. If this does not seem possible, we will draw alternatives on the basis of the international law and values of an independent sovereign country. We will not accept the anti-national means that rulers after the Sugauli treaty adopted.