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Kathmandu, Nepal, March 16, 2021: The CPN (Maoist Center) wants to drop Maoist tag from its name and identity. Following the Supreme Court (SC) order to invalidate the unification with the CPN UML, the CPN (Maoist Center) has initiated internal process drop the Maoist tag from the party’s name and identity.
During the standing committee and central committee meeting held recently, party Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal had put forth such a proposal to drop the Maoist tag from the party's name.
Though the party has yet to reach on conclusion over the party’s name, discussions were held to name the party as Nepal Communist Party (NCP) shedding Maoist tag from the party’s name to ease process to unite with other communist parties including the recently separated CPN UML.
As dissident faction of the ruling CPN UML led by Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Natha Khanal also wants to merge the two parties at again, attempts will be made to unite the Rishi Kattel-led NCP.
The CPN UML and the CPN (Maoist Center) were revived from the SC order after SC invalidated the unification between the two parties reason that Kattel had already registered the party at the Election Commission (EC) with same name.
The CPN (Maoist Center) leadership including the chair Dahal has a belief that dropping of Maoist tag and naming party as old one CPN would help to unite other communist parties including the CPN UML.
Though the CPN (Maoist Center) wants to shed Maoist tag even from the party’s name and identity, it had launched a decade long ‘people’s war’ in the name of CPN (Maoist) believing in Mao’s dictum before it signed in the comprehensive peace accord in 2006.
Likewise, the meeting had also discussed to appeal for a review against the verdict issued by the SC to revive the CPN UML and the CPN (Maoist Center) scrapping the erstwhile NCP.
