Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)

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Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist)
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत समाजवादी)
ChairmanMadhav Kumar Nepal
General SecretaryBeduram Bhusal
Founded18 August 2021
Registered25 August 2021
Split fromCPN (UML)
HeadquartersMin Bhawan, Aaloknagar, Kathmandu
Student wingAll Nepal National Free Students Union[1]
Youth wingAkhil Force
People's Volunteers (PV)[1]
Membership (2021)250,000 (2021)[2]
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
People's Multiparty Democracy[3][4]
Political positionLeft-wing
House of Representatives
25 / 275
National Assembly
10 / 59
[5]
Provincial Assemblies
54 / 550
Number of provinces leading government in
2 / 7
Election symbol
Nepalese Election Symbol Pen.jpg
Party flag
Flag of the CPN-UML.svg
Website
www.cpnus.org.np

The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) (Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत-समाजवादी), romanized: Nēpāla kamyuniṣṭa pārṭī (Ēkīkr̥ta-Samājavādī)), abbreviated as CPN (Unified Socialist) is the fourth largest political party in Nepal.[6] The party was officially registered at the Election Commission, Nepal on 18 August 2021, after it split from the largest communist party in Nepal, CPN (UML).[7][8]

Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal is the Chairman of the new party and Former Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal serves as the Senior Leader.[9][10][11]

As of August 2021 the party had voted in favour of Nepali Congress-led Deuba government and is an impoaftert ally in the governing collision.[12][13] The party got its certificate of registration on 25 August along with Loktantrik Samajbadi Party Nepal when the Election Commission verified its application with signature of more than twenty percent in both central committee and federal parliamentary party.[14][15]

Ideology[]

The party's ideology consists of Marxism–Leninism and support for a multi-party system. The party also favors socialism-oriented people's democracy.[16]

History[]

Formation[]

Former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, founder of the CPN (Unified Socialist)

The President of Nepal, on the recommendation of the council of ministers issued second amendment on political parties related act on 18 August 2021 relaxing the requirements to split parties with 20 percent or more members of the Parliamentary Party and the Central Committee of the political party.[17][18]

This same amendment opened the way to formalize the splits inside the dispute between two factions of Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal and CPN(UML) respectively. The CPN(UML) faction led by Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal which had a long dispute with CPN(UML) chairman KP Sharma Oliregistered their party by the name ''CPN (Unified Socialist)'' with the Election Commission.[19] Initially, the party had proposed the name CPN UML (Socialist). However, the Election Commission requested him not to register under a preregistered name by including some adjectives.[20]

At the time of the launch of the party, leaders claimed to have 31 members in the two national houses of parliament including 23 from House of Representatives and 8 from National Assembly.[21] A Central Committee with 95 members was announced as well.[21][22] However, many politicians of the mother party CPN(UML) hadn't finalised their decision yet including party less leader Bam Dev Gautam.[23] Madhav Kumar Nepal was announced to act as the coordinator of the party.[24]

The decision of Nepal to form a new party was however met with some criticism from within his own faction. The second generation leaders close to him boycotted the decision except party secretary Jeevan Ram Shrestha and Ram Kumari Jhakri. Leaders including Ghanashyam Bhusal and Yogesh Bhattarai sided with KP Sharma Oli for party unity. This faction included leaders like Yubaraj Gyawali, Asta Laxmi Shakya, Bhim Rawal, Ghanashyam Bhusal, Gokarna Bista, Bhim Acharya, Yogesh Bhattarai and standing committee members like Surendra Pandey, Raghuji Panta and Amrit Bohora.[25] They even attended the standing committee meeting of 8th Bhadra which called upon Nepal faction for party unity for a final time and instructed CPN (UML) to fulfill their 10 points demand.[26][27] Later Bhim Rawal and Ghanashyam Bhusal were ditched from the 10th general convention of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist).

On the same day (8th Bhadra), Nepal arranged a meeting where he presented the party's doctrine and announced that People's Multiparty Democracy would be their guiding philosophy.[28][29]

Party Authentication[]

Party office of CPN (Unified Socialist)

Following the registration, the Election Commission had summoned CPN (Unified Socialist) on 9th Bhadra for authentication. As per the new provision the party had to present signatures 20% of either the central committee or the parliamentary party to authenticate the registration.[30] The party was able to meet the threshold with 55 out of 205 members of the central committee, but only 8 out of 33 of the National Assembly and 23 out of 121 of House of Representatives.[31]

Among these members, Pradeep Nepal, a central committee member who was earlier close to Oli, was present during signature session.[32] The signature of Jhalanath Khanal who signed it from Delhi was counted although the Election Commission had rejected his previous request to accept such signatures as he had been in Delhi for his kidney transplant.[33][34] However, the Election Commission rejected to accept the signatures of Som Prasad Pandey, Maya Gyawali, Tulsa Thapa and Sharada Devi Bhatta as they hadn't signed the earlier application for party registration.[35] Letter a petition was filed at Supreme Court which allowed them to join the new party.

After the process, Met Mani Chaudhary, the party's MP claimed that the party would emerge as the country's largest political party within four months after merger with Dahal-led CPN (Maoist Centre) and possible mergers with the communist fronts led by Dr Baburam Bhattarai, Mohan Baidhya 'Kiran', Netra Bikram Chand 'Biplab' and other fringe parties.[36]

Organization and structure[]

Central organization[]

Secretariat[]

A twelve-member Secretariat (also known as High Command) of the party was created. It included:

Standing Committee[]

The 35 member Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau has been formed.[39]

Politburo[]

A 71-member politburo has been formed after the formation of the standing committee and central committee.[39]

Central Committee[]

The central committee had a total of 301 members, formed on 24 September 2021.[39]

Leadership[]

The party has one Chairperson, seven Deputy chairpersons, one General secretary, four Deputy general secretary and six Secretary. Altogether there are 18 party portfolio holders. Jhalanath Khanal is senior leader and Mukunda Neupane is the leader of the party and are kept at position two and three respectively. Similarly Pradip Nepal is kept at number four.[39][40][41]

Chairperson[]

Deputy chairperson[]

General Secretary[]

Deputy General Secretary[]

  • Prakash Jwala
  • Gangalal Tuladhar
  • Bijay Paudel
  • Jagannath Khatiwada

Secretary[]

Provincial committees[]

Province[41] Incharge Deputy Incharge Chairman Deputy Chairman Secretary Deputy secretary
Province No. 1 Dhanendra Basnet Suresh Karki Mahesh Regmi Sarita Thapa
Madhesh Dharma Nath Prasad Sah Ram Chandra Yadav Laxman Paudel
Bagmati Kedar Neupane Sabitra Bhusal Ramji Sharma Laxman Lamsal
Gandaki Keshav Lal Shrestha
  • Chudamani BK Jungli
  • Sharda Subedi
 Tul Bahadur Gurung Pratap Lal Shrestha Rekha Thapa
Lumbini Bhagwat Biswasi Metmani Chaudhary Raju Gurung
Karnali Prakash Jwala
  • Chandra Bahadur Shahi
  • Hansa Bahadur Shahi
 Amar Bahadur Thapa Thagendra Prasad Puri
Sudurpaschim Garima Shah Bikram Shahi Dinesh Chandra Subedi
  • Dirgha Bahadur Sodari
  • Tara Lama
  • Maya Bhatta
Kathmandu Valley (Special) Bishwa Nath Pyakurel
  • Pramod Sharma
 Kedar Sanjel Bishnu Lamsal

Chief ministers[]

Province Chief Minister Portrait Cabinet Constituency
Province No. 1 Rajendra Kumar Rai Bhojpur 1(B)
Bagmati Province Rajendra Prasad Pandey[42] Dhading 1(A)

Presence in legislature[]

Federal Parliament[]

Parliament Parliamentary Party Leader Pratinidhi Sabha Rastriya Sabha
1st Federal Parliament of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal[43]
23 / 275
9 / 59

Provincial Assemblies[]

Province No. of members Percentage Position Parliamentary party leader
Province No. 1
10 / 93
 10.75 4th Rajendra Kumar Rai[44]
Madhesh
13 / 107
 12.14 4th Satrudhan Mahato[45]
Bagmati
13 / 110
 11.81 4th Rajendra Prasad Pandey[46]
Gandaki
0 / 60
 0 – –
Lumbini
1 / 87
 1.14 5th Rama Gharti[47]
Karnali
3 / 40
[48] 		7.5 4th [49]
Sudurpaschim
14 / 53
 26.41 1st [50][51]

Sister organizations[]

Following are the sister organizations of the party:[52]

  • Integrated Centre of Trade Unions, Nepal
    (एकीकृत ट्रेड युनियन महासंघ, नेपाल)
  • Youth Association of Nepal
    (युवा संघ नेपाल)
  • All Nepal National Free Students Union
    (अखिल नेपाल राष्ट्रिय स्वतन्त्र विद्यार्थी युनियन)
  • All Nepal Women's Association (Socialist)
    (अखिल नेपाल महिला सङ्घ (समाजवादी))
  • All Nepal Peasants Association
    (अखिल नेपाल किसान महासंघ)
  • Nepal National Teachers Association
    (नेपाल राष्ट्रिय शिक्षक संघ)

See also[]

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