The Nepali Communist Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) have merged.
Under the merger agreement signed between the two parties, the unified party will be named the Nepali Communist Party, and its election symbol will be a five-pointed star.
The agreement was signed by Uma Bhujel, general secretary of the CPN, and Madhav Kumar Nepal and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the co-coordinator and coordinator, respectively, of the NCP.
An assembly was also held at the party’s central office in Paris Danda on Tuesday to announce the party unification.
The two parties agreed to move forward with the unification process with the objectives of strengthening the federal democratic republic, safeguarding national sovereignty, ensuring good governance and social justice, and achieving economic and social transformation toward a socialist revolution.
The agreement states that the unified party will adopt Marxism-Leninism as its guiding principle and scientific socialism with Nepali characteristics as the program of the Nepali revolution.
Its immediate political strategy will focus on protecting the federal democratic republic, safeguarding national sovereignty, promoting good governance and social justice, and achieving economic prosperity to lay the foundation for socialism.
Under the agreement, a national unity convention will be held after the upcoming local-level elections.
Organizational adjustments will be made by consensus across the central committee, central working committee, central secretariat, and other central bodies, as well as party committees and affiliated mass organizations at all levels.
The parties have agreed to complete the organizational adjustments by mid-December.
The agreement also states that all party committees will operate in accordance with established rules, procedures, and the principle of democratic centralism.
Differences in ideology and political philosophy, as well as questions concerning the assessment of the parties’ past activities, will be discussed continuously and resolved through the national unity convention.
