Sector Kanda ( ne, सेक्टर काण्ड, 'Sector Incident') is the name given to a failed attempt to launch an armed uprising in
Nepal in 1986. It was organized by the
Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal), one of the precursors of the
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The 'Sector Kanda' represented the first experience of armed struggle of the precursor organizations of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), prior to the launching of
People's War ten years later.
April 1 actions
Under the leadership of
Mohan Baidya ('Kiran') the
Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) adopted
Maoism as its ideological line. As part of the new line, the party called for armed struggle, seeking to ignite a mass popular uprising against the panchayat regime, and for boycott of the panchayat elections.
[''The Kathmandu Post''. ]
The lone wolf
' On April 1, 1986 the statue of
King Tribhuvan at Tripureshwor in the capital
Kathmandu was painted black and a number of police posts were attacked by the party.
[Hutt, Michael. ]
Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion
'. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. p. 35 The April 1 actions, which became known as 'Sector Kanda', sought to derail the election process.
Aftermath
Contrary to the expectations of the party leadership, the April 1 actions failed to inspire popular militancy.
[Einsiedel, Sebastian von, David Malone, and Suman Pradhan. ]
Nepal in Transition: From People's War to Fragile Peace
'. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. p. 71 On the other hand, the action revealed the underground activities of the party.
A number of Mashal party cadres were arrested. When the
Central Committee
Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...
of the party analyzed the Sector Kanda events, they concluded that the actions had been a mistake as they had exposed the underground networks of the party.
As a result, Baidya resigned as party general secretary.
He was replaced
Pushpa Kamal Dahal (then known by the party name 'Biswas', later commonly known as 'Prachanda').
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Communism in Nepal
1986 in Nepal