Published on: Sep 03, 2021
Relying on same ideology of Marxist and Leninist and eulogizing Pushpa Lal, Madan Bhandari and Manmohan Adhikiari, Madhav Kumar Nepal-led newborn party has nothing different from the mother party, Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist and Leninist (CPN-UML). However, former Prime Minister Nepal, one of the founders of CPN-UML, decided to go with the new one. Although it is individually too risky in his five decades of political career to lead the new party, 69-year-old Nepal, former CPN-UML general secretary, had no option left to get rid of the political humiliation he felt from his old colleague K.P. Sharma Oli. As the party has been divided on the ego of two individuals, the unification can take place at any time as vertical splits and mergers are regular characters of Nepalese political parties. Breaking apart is common not only with communist parties but also with the rightist, centrist and regional parties. However, the division is more frequent with the communist parties and Nepal-led faction is a recent instance
By Keshab Poudel | Sep 07, 2021