The Election Commission has registered Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist).
The commission's meeting on Wednesday has decided to register the party chaired by Sandhya Tiwari of Morang, according to Election Commission Spokesperson Raj Kumar Shrestha. "We will issue certificate of party registration in a few days after publishing it in the Nepal Gazette," he told Setopati.
The new CPN (UML) has registered sun rising from hills as its election symbol. The election symbol of ruling CPN, and erstwhile CPN-UML, is sun.
CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the end of June had accused fellow Chairman and Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli of trying to register the party as the internal dispute in ruling CPN, formed after unification Oli-led CPN-UML and Dahal-led CPN (Maoist Center), escalated.
Oli was allegedly mulling to split the ruling party then and many took application for registration of new UML as a threat to scare his opponents that he will again lead UML after splitting CPN. But Oli had denied the allegations.
Tiwari, who is considered close to Oli, had applied for registration on June 26.
