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Finally, CPN UML and Maoist Center united as a single party

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  Kathmandu, Nepal      February 20 2018

 Kathmandu, Nepal: Finally, the CPN-UML and CPN Maoist Centre have reached an agreement on unification of the two parties. 


Both the chairman of the two big communist parties – KP Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal respectively signed on a seven point agreement on the modality of the unification on Monday night.

The meeting held among the top leaders of the two parties reached on the conclusion to sign in the deal at late night Monday ending the differences on leadership, organization and ideology.

In the agreement UML Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Jhala Nath Khanal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Bam Dev Gautam and Ishwor Pokharel have signed on behlf of the CPN UML whereas Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, senior leaders Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Ram Bahadur Thapa have signed in the agreement paper on behalf of the CPN Maoist Centre.

As per the agreement, the new party will be named Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) and Marxism and Leninism will be the guiding principle of the new party.

Though the issue is not stated in the agreement paper, it is said that KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal will co- chair the party in a bi-chairman system until the general convention.