UML, Maoist Center reach seven-point deal on unification
KATHMANDU, Jan 19: CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) has reached a seven-point agreement on Monday.
A meeting of the party unification coordination committee held till late evening at prime minister’s residence, Baluwatar finalized the seven-point agreement terming them as the primary bases for the party unification.
Prime Minister and UML Chair KP Oli, UML leaders Jhala Nath Khanal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Bamdev Gautam and Ishwor pokhrel and Maoist Center Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, leaders Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Ram Bahadur Thapa signed the agreement.
The two parties have agreed to name the proposed united party as Nepal Communist Party. Likewise, party’s directorate principle will be Marxism-Leninism, according to the agreement. Also the it has been stated that UML’s ‘People’s Multiparty Democracy’ and Maoist Center’s ‘Maoism’ and ‘21st century Democracy’ can be modified as per the need and the next General Convention will be summoned as Unity General Convention.
However, no deal on proposed party’s chairmanship, rotating premiership and allocating ministries and key posts have been cleared yet.
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