UNITY BETWEEN NEPAL’S TWO MAJOR COMMUNIST PARTIES POSSIBLE
According to a report by Himal News Service, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) Chairman Prachanda said on February 26 that his party’s integrated policy-wise and program-wise union with CPN (UML or United Marxist-Leninist) is feasible. Prachanda said: “It cannot be disregarded that the ongoing debate between the two parties might end in a union.”
A final discussion will be held on February 28 regarding the formation of an interim government, he said. He demanded that his party be allowed to put into practice at least the “minimum programme range” if it is denied ministries agreed upon earlier. He said his party was thinking of drafting a 20-year programme related to economic and political affairs.