UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal vented anger against the remark of Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal that the Maoists would face the fate of the LTTE if they again resorted to violence.

“What does it mean to say that the Maoists will turn out to be like the LTTE? Does this not tend to invite face-to-face war? Is it proper for a person in the post of prime minister to make such remarks?” he asked, according to myrepublica.com

Dahal said he took the remarks of the prime minister seriously as, he claimed, he had heard then army chief Rookmangud Katawal making similar remarks when the Maoists were in power.