KATHMANDU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister and Chairman of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Prachanda has said that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) would not remain under the party from now onwards, The Rising Nepal reported on Friday.
Addressing a function organized at the 4th division of the PLA cantonment at Hattikhor, some 160 km west of Kathmandu, to mark the 14th anniversary of "the People's War" and 8th anniversary of the formation of the PLA on Thursday, Prachanda stated the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) had already taken up the responsibility to look after the PLA.
He said that all the PLA commanders and soldiers had to abide without any grudges by the decision of the AISC.
He said that the Integration of the PLA would be as stated in the interim constitution.
Prachanda, who had been the supreme commander of the PLA before he was elected to the premiership, said that he was present in the function as the first Prime inister of federal democratic republic of Nepal and urged the PLA to act esponsibly for peace and progress
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