Party Unification Coordination Committee meeting underway

KATHMANDU, May 17: A meeting of the Party Unification Coordination Committee comprising top leaders of CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) is currently underway at official residence of the Prime Minister, Baluwatar, to give final shape to party unification process, going to be announced today.

The meeting has focused its attention on issue related to registration of new party at the Election Commission by determining joint statute, political document and central committee and party unification announcement through news conference.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister and UML Chair KP Sharma Oli and Maoist Center Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ jointly planted a sapling of Ginkgo Biloba, a plant that survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagashaki during the Second World War, on the premises of Baluwatar before the meeting.

They also planted saplings of mango, Prosopiscineraria, guava, avocado and memphis wishing the party unification would long last.