UML expands its Standing Committee, four ex Maoist leaders included

KATHMANDU, June 30: CPN-UML has expanded its Standing Committee.  In the recent expansion, four former leaders of the CPN (Maoist Center), who opted to join the UML after the Supreme Court (SC) on March 7 invalidated the erstwhile Nepal Communist Party (NCP), have also been included in the committee. Former Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatta and Mani Thapa have been added in the committee.  Similarly, Raghubir Mahaseth, Bishnu Rimal, Beduram Bhusal and Raghu Panta have also been included.  UML Spokesperson Pradeep Gyawali said that the Standing Committee members of the erstwhile NCP have been given space in the party’s similar committee.  Meanwhile,the party also dissolved its 10th General Convention Organizing Committee.  UML is scheduled to hold its Central Committee meeting on July 2.

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Ruling alliance of CPN (Maoist Center), CPN-UML and five others split in 61 days

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The ruling alliance headed by CPN (Maoist Center), CPN-UML, Ratsriya Swatantra Party, Janamat Party, Nagarik Unmukti Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party split after 61 days of formation. With the agreement to support the Nepali Congress and Janata Samajbadi P

Darchula: UML cadres attack and injure Maoist cadre

A CPN-Maoist Centre cadre has sustained critical injuries in an attack reportedly by the CPN-UML cadres in the Darchula district of far-western Nepal. The post Darchula: UML cadres attack and injure Maoist cadre appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.

Maoist Centre’s landslide victory in Rukum East

Maoist Centre’s candidates won four wards while UML emerged the winner in three wards.

Maoist Center to lay claim on UML’s new logo

KATHMANDU, October 7: Following the reveal of the new logo by the CPN (UML) through their first ever statute congress, the logo aroused a new controversy between the party and CPN (Maoist Center). The Maoist Center has accused CPN (UML) of using their logo. We will take legal actions. The party is currently holding discussions in this regard, Dev Gurung, a leader of Maoist Center told Ratopati. Meanwhile, the CPN (UML) has maintained that the Maoist Center cannot stake claim on their new logo.  Earlier when the two parties had merged and formed the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), these two parties then had a common logo. The CPN (UML), now, after its split with CPN (Maoist Center) has slightly changed the logo and endorsed it through their recent statute congress held for the first time in party history.

Election Commission: Maoist Centre is still legitimate

The Election Commission has decided that the CPN-Maoist Centre's legitimacy has not ended now as claimed by some of its previous leaders who defected to the CPN-UML recently.

Ex Maoist leaders to knock at EC’s door

KATHMANDU, July 9: Former leaders of the CPN (Maoist Center) are prepreating to go to the Election Commission.  Leaders including Prabhu Shah, Mani Thapa and Gaurishankar Chaudhari, who joined the CPN-UML after the erstwhile NCP was invalidated, are going to the poll body on Friday under the leadership of Top Bahadur Rayamajhi. Meanwhile, Lekhraj Bhatta won’t join them due to health issues. Advocate Saroj Budhathoki has filed a petition seeking the revocation of Maoist Center’s registration. "We registered the petition. We are heading towards the commission to perceive what the commission is actually doing," said Thapa.  Shah, Thapa Bhatta and Chaudhari were elected through the FPTP electoral system in 2017 general elections on behalf of the Maoist party. They were suspended as the lawmakers of the House of Representatives (HoR) by the party as they decided to join the UML.  According to them,  the action taken was totally illegal . Advocate Budhathoki, in the petition, claimed the Maoist party itself is illegitimate.

Leaders who defected to UML want Maoist Centre’s registration scrapped

A group of former CPN-Maoist Centre leaders who had defected to the CPN-UML in the changed political context of late have demanded that the Election Commission scrap the registration of their former party.

Maoist Centre finally withdraws support extended to Oli govt

After two months of indecisiveness, the CPN-Maoist Centre has withdrawn the support extended to the government led by CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli.