Civil Society were Beggers

This man is incredible. Again, either he was pandering to his base, or he felt secure enough in that environment to speak the truth. But, regarding Jana Aandolan-II, this is what Prachanda has to say:

"We never compromised with the state. Our agreement was with the protesters. Sometimes I say--they were wandering the streets like beggars. We picked them up to make the 12- point pact."

He thinks he saved the hundreds of thousands of people who came out to the streets to throw the king out. He calls them--the civil society--helpless beggars.

Perhaps he just doesn't understand what civic pride and sense of duty, and the sense of injustice, means to the people he seems to delight in deceiving.