Nepal's former prime minister K P Oli today accused "some forces" of hatching conspiracies to assassinate the left alliance candidates in the country, hours after a Maoist Centre candidate was attacked.
Oli, 65, said the "forces" were panicked over the rising popularity of the left alliance.
The CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist have forged electoral alliance for both the provincial and parliamentary elections to give a tough fight to ruling Nepali Congress, which emerged as the largest party in the last parliamentary elections.
Oli's remarks came after unidentified men hurled a bomb at Narayan Kaji Shrestha, CPN-Maoist Centre leader and the leftist alliance's candidate for Parliamentary elections in Gorkha-2. Shrestha escaped unhurt in the attack.
Speaking at a programme in Bhaktapur district near here, Oli said some "some forces" were hatching conspiracies against the left alliance and suspected the government's involvement in the attack.
He questioned as to why only left alliance candidates were being targeted.
Last week, unidentified men hurled two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at CPN (Maoist-Centre) leader and minister in Nepal's Deuba government Janardan Sharma's vehicle while he was on his way for election campaigning in Rukum district.
Oli also expressed concern over the alleged arbitrary distribution of Rs 230 million to the ruling party cadres from the state coffer.
"Is there any connection between these two?" Oli asked.
The general and parliamentary elections in Nepal - scheduled for November 26 and December 7 - are seen as the final step in Nepal's post-war transition to a federal democracy.
The Maoists have dominated Nepal's politics for more than 20 years after waging a decade-long insurgency against the government forces that claimed more than 16,000 lives.
The civil war in Nepal came to an end in 2006.
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