Baburam Bhattarai receives death threat

In another sign of the growing factionalism within the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), an activist belonging to the party trade union front, All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF), on Monday threatened vice chairman Baburam Bhattarai. Dr Bhattarai received the threat from members of chairman ‘Prachanda's faction of the union. The trade union has been among the most faction-ridden of the party front organisations, divided among loyalists of Mr. Prachanda, Dr. Bhattarai and another vice chairman Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran'. There have been instances of physical clashes among the three groups.