According to Maoist secretaries Kalyan of Argakhachi and Prajuwal of Gulmi, the Maoist fighters on 25 Baishak (8 May) attacked a vehicle of GARDEP, the Gulmi Argakhachi Rural Development Project, funded by the European Union.

A press release of the Maoists said that foreigners and foreign organisations are corrupt, that they interfere in matters of national interest. They mislead people by saying they are working for development, while all they do is work against nationalists. They spread terror and carry out massacres. GARDEP is also accused of all these. The release further says that the fascist government in Nepal is scared that the American imperialists and Indian expansionists who support their government will leave them high and dry. This is why they are doing all they can to stop such organisations from leaving the country. These organisations, says the statement, always mislead poor people by stating that they are working for their development. They are corrupt, out to line their own pockets.

The statement goes on to request these organisations to not interfere in national affairs. It warns all organisations working in Argakhachi and Gulmi to behave properly, but goes on to clarify that they, the Maoist secretaries, do not have a policy of disallowing such organisations from working in the two districts.