Prachanda proposes to leave ‘Maoist Center’ in the name of the party

Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, head of Nepal’s CPN-Maoist Center (MC), has proposed to leave a “Maoist Center” in the name of the party to make it acceptable to communist forces in the country, who do not like Naxalism, according to This may include. For a media report on Monday.

CPN-MC member Shiv Kumar Mandal said that former Prime Minister Prachanda was always in favor of unity among all communist forces in the country and suggested that if the party was helped in uniting these forces by removing the “Maoist Center” from its name. If found, then there should be a party ready for this, The Himalayan Times reported.

The proposal to change the party’s name has come before CPN-MC as its merger with CPN-UML was recently canceled under the leadership of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

This has created a situation where Prime Minister Oli suddenly sees his position in the party strengthening, as he has a clear majority in the Central Committee and the Parliamentary Party.

Other prominent leaders of CPN-UML’s Nepal faction – Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalnath Khanal, who had joined hands with Prachanda in seeking Oli’s resignation as Prime Minister – find themselves in a disadvantageous position, the report said.

CPN (UML) and CPN (MC) merged in May 2018 to form a unified Nepal Communist Party following the victory of their alliance in the 2017 general election.

The ruling NCP split in December on Oli’s move to dissolve the 275-member House of Representatives. In a landmark ruling, the apex court last month restored the lower house of parliament.

Nepal’s Election Commission on Tuesday asked CPN (UML) and CPN (MC) to come up with a new name and election symbol of the party if they renege after the Supreme Court revoked the 2018 unification of the two parties. The parties decide to merge.

However, the political quarrel between the two parties intensified for the second time after Prachanda on Sunday, when he asked his ministers in Prime Minister Oli’s government to resign to break the party’s discipline, expressing his reluctance to leave the cabinet. Of.

Mandal said that there were many communist forces around the world who held that the doctrine propounded by Marx and Lenin was the true doctrine of communism and that the “Maoist Center” could be a distraction for many who united their parties with their faction Wanted to do.

“Our party chair had developed ‘Prachandpath’ as ​​Nepal’s own political principle, but when our party signed a unity deal with the communist organization led by Narayan Qazi Shrestha, Prachanda renounced ‘Prachandpath’ Tax, which was a condition set by the superior group, ”the report quoted Mandal as saying.

Political analyst Uddhav Picakural told CPN-MC that Mao initially believed that “political power rises with the barrel of a gun” swept the idea when it signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2006 and began to believe Did that “political power comes through political means” ballot “.

Pyakurel said the excuse of the Maoist tag had become a compulsion for the CPN-MC as it integrated with the CPN-UML that upheld the values ​​of liberal democracy.

Prachanda had side with UML’s Nepal faction and unity between his party and UML’s Nepal faction was still possible. The reason for this is that Prachanda wants to change the name of his party. The report said that the Nepal faction could not join the Prachanda-led party until it put the Maoist tag, the report said, referring to Pyakurel.

He said that an alliance between Prachanda and other communist forces was possible at any time before the next general election.

Meanwhile, the Nepal-Khanal faction of CPN-UML issued a joint statement on Monday, accusing Oli of trying to divide the communist movement and the UML.