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Ten Maoist parties including the UCPN (Maoist) have announced their merger in a bid to regain their strength in the national politics, leaders said. The new party has been named CPN-Maoist-Centre in a function held in the Nepalese Capital Kathmandu on Thursday.
While declaring the new party, Chairman Dahal claimed that the unity among the Maoists is also a new kind of national unity.
said the new party will fight against the tyrannical, high-caste arrogance and colonial tendencies that still exist among the ruling class in Nepal.
A veteran leader of the party said that the Maoist parties decided to unify to institutionalize remaining achievements of the People's Movement 2006 and complete the peace process.
"We decided to merge the Maoists parties keeping in mind that the nationalist forces should come together to face challenges pertaining to the national unity and sovereignty of the country. Our unity is a kind of unity against the regressive forces who want to push country back at the time of this crucial juncture," Vice Chairman of the party Narayan Kaji Shrestha told Xinhua.
The Maoist parties came together against war-era cases relating to violation of human rights registered at the local courts against the Maoist leaders during the period and which are now hounding them, political analysts said. The Maoist party, which waged a decade-long armed insurgency since 1996 to topple monarchy, was split into half a dozen factions.
Due to split in the party in 2012, the UCPN (Maoist) came out third in the Nov. 19, 2013 Constituent Assembly election.
In 2008, the Maoist Party emerged as a largest party after securing 240 seats in 601-member CA but in 2013 the party got just 84 seats. After the election, all Maoist fringe parties are struggling to retain their previous position in the national politics.
The Maoist Party had faced split one after another several times after the party joined the mainstream politics. Maoist leader Matrika Yadav had formed a new faction in 2009 and Mohan Baidya formed another faction quitting the mother party in 2012. Later, again Baidya faction split after Netra Bikram Chand quit the party.
Recently, leader Ram Bahadur Thapa formed another party quitting the Baidya-led Maoist. The Maoist party entered to the peace process adopting the multi-party democracy in 2006 following the success of the popular People's Movement that led to abdication of the 240-year monarchy from the power.
(APD)
