KATHMANDU: Nepal government’s high level inquiry commission has concluded that Padam Kunwar had slapped Maoist supremo Puspa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ in a fit of disdain and momentary impulse.

The high level commission formed by Nepal’s Home Ministry in its 200-page long report has claimed that Kunwar had slapped Prachanda after remembering his family’s condition, Nepali national daily newspaper Kantipur Dainik reported on Tuesday.

Stating that the incident was not pre-planned or organized, the report has further said that Kunwar had lost his temper after the Maoist leaders began to deliver speech by making party cadres in queue.

Quoting Kunwar the report claimed that Kunwar could not resist the divergence of the Maoist leaders from the promises that they had made during the insurgency period.

He has said that his family firmly believed in the promises made by the present Maoist leaders during the insurgency period and had therefore devoted their life to it. But upon having to wait in line and finding that they had deviated from that cause and remembering that his sister and brother have still bullets in their body, he lost his temper.

” While I was standing in the queue, I remembered my home, and the pathetic condition of my mother, sister and brother. I became very much sentimental and almost broke down,” the report quoted Kunwar.

” I had stood in the queue thinking of expressing my family’s sorrows but suddenly my hand slapped Prachanda,” Kunwar said adding ” And it seemed that I had slapped him tight,  I remember seeing Prachandaji’s spectacles falling down”.

However, Kunwar said that he slapped Prachanda because he was the first in the row to welcome and he had no control over his emotions at that time.

Kunwar has said that his family had joined the Maoist during the year 2000 and his family lost its peace due to it. He said that his brother Tek Bahadur Kunwar behaves erratically due to the side-effects of the bullet that he was shot while fighting for the Maoist in Beni attack.

He has also said that his sister, Pratibha Kunwar still has bullet remains in her hand since the Maoist insurgency. His mother has gone insane due to the torture given by the state forces during the insurgency for finding the whereabouts of his sister and brother.

Due to disturbed mentality his brother has many times beaten his father and family members and has been incapable of controlling his temper too.

Kunwar has further said that he had joined that Maoist party in 2006 but soon after joining the party had gone to Qatar for employment. He had returned home in 2008 thinking that his sister Pratibha might get ticket to fight for the Constituent Assembly from Baglung district.

Chitra Raj Bhandari, KATHMANDU:  Father of the man who slapped and blew off the specs of Nepal’s most power politician- Puspa Kamal Dahal aka “Prachanda” amid a public program, has reached Kathmandu.

Prem Bahadur Kunwar father of the Padam Kunwar, reached here on Thursday with an aim to meet his son and Prachanda himself by borrowing money from his neighborhood.

A committed Maoist and former Nepal Army soldier, Prem Bahadur disapproved his son’s action as an ‘decision taken in emotions’ and at the same time criticized Maoist cadres and police machinery for thrashing him, the Nepali newspaper Kantipur reported in its Friday edition.

The report said that Prem Bahadur has not been able to meet his son on Thursday. When he reached the district police cell at Hanuman Dhoka, he was redirected to another Nepal Police detention center at Maharjgunj. Kunwar senior expressed hope that he will meet his son on Friday morning.

Who is Padam Kunwar ?

Padam Kunwar (25)  is son of his ex-army father and Maoist party member father Prem Kunwar and ‘insane’ mother Hari Kumari. His mother had lost her sanity, during the Maoist insurgency due to the atrocities of the state security force as two of his brother and sister were fighting for the Maoist cause.

A permanent resident of Baglung Rajkot, Kunwar’s father had left the Nepal Army service in 2037 after seven years of service. Kunwar is one of the seven siblings of his parents.  Due to army background, the Kunwar family became the victim state security force’s atrocities and his father was forced to attend the district police office throughout the insurgency period.

Due to the atrocities that their father had to witness, two of the Kunwar’s siblings became permanent members of the Maoist party and became their PLAs. Due to this, state forces had tortured Kunwar’s mother and till now she becomes unconscious whenever she sees a combat dress, Prem Kunwar was quoted by the daily.

His son Tek Bahadur and daughter Pratima after fighting through out the insurgency period, have their injuries still unattended. And the mother Kunwar still remains insane though Prem Bahadur has already taken loans for treating her at the Patan mental hospital.

Padam Kunwar has been commmitted to the Maoist cause and during the CA elections had worked as YCL incharge of six Baglung VDCs.

Presently the Prem Kunwar has been disowned by both Maoist- UCPN Maoist and CPN Maoist. Despite having a family legacy which had dedicate all of their resources to the Maoist dream, Prem Kunwar languishes in Nepal Police’s custody for slapping the Prachanda- his former ideal and present disgust.