The youth communists

Today there was a large rally of small communists. Yes, it was the first national convention of the youth communists and apparently about 20,000 of them marched around the city. I caught the tail end from the back of a taxi and took some not very exciting photos (see below).

The Maoists all waved red flags and some even had a special uniform (just like brownies and scouts at home) which was blue (with Maoist red trim) and had a white star on the front and the Maoist emblem and indecipherable Nepali writing on the back!

More excitingly i managed to pick up a much coveted red Maoist visa that they tend to where at all rallies. Its crappy and made of thin card, and mine has also been run over by a few cars, but it amuses me all the same to have small pieces of such propaganda about the house...

Traffic police tries to coordinate the traffic... battle police were sitting down lazing around as usual... note many small red paper Maoist visas!

Boy sitting down on right hand side is modeling the special youth communist uniform!