The "internal war" in Nepal's Maoist party is being fought on the social networking sites, with supporters of different factions using the Facebook to put their views across to the cadres.

The UCPN-Maoist, who ended their decade-long civil war in 2006 and emerged as the single largest party in the 2008 Assembly election, has failed to decide on a high-level meeting amid deepening differences among the top leadership.

The supporters of Maoist supremo Prachanda, his deputy Baburam Bhattarai and Vice Chairmen Mohan Vaidya have taken to the social media to express their views on the party's internal disputes openly on the Facebook.

Prachanda's only son Prakash Dahal has come out on top in making comments on the affairs of the party on the Facebook, the government-run daily Gorkhapatra said. Some of the commentators wrote positive note on the party's affairs while many of them expressed their dissatisfaction with Prakash.

"What type of dream is it as one expects to win the battle by weakening the party chairman," writes Babin Sharma, one of the supporters of Prachanda. Similarly, sympathisers of Vaidya were openly aggressive in making their comments against Prachanda, with whom the hardline leader has had a running battle for the last one year over ideological issues.

Similarly, Lekhnath Neupane "Sajag," used the social networking site to support Bhattarai. Krishna Prasad Adhikati writes that the Communist leader's (Prachanda) "character is amazing as he always aim at the chair." "Sometimes they should sit on the mat like an ordinary people."

Amid the internal squabble in the Maoist party, senior party leader and Home Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara failed to attend the crucial Thimphu SAARC ministerial meeting in the face of speculation over reshuffle in the Communist-led coalition.

The Home Minister's eldest son, Nirmal Mahara, writes: "It is appropriate if good people are inducted as the party appoints new faces in the ministry....but it seems that the party is gripped with anarchy....and power hungry politics".

Bhattarai's name has often been pushed as a consensus candidate to lead a new unity government amid the political deadlock in the country. Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal, who is dependent on his survival in office on the crucial support of the Maoists, has been isolated.

Top political leaders in the country, including those from his own CPN-UML party have asked Khanal to step down to pave the way for a new national unity government.