KATHMANDU: The Maoist Center has decided to change the party’s name and election symbol. Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who is also the Prime Minister, proposed a radical change in the name, election symbols and structure of the party during the Maoist Standing Committee meeting held recently. The party’s Standing Committee also approved Prachanda’s […]
KATHMANDU, Aug 16: Bishwadeep Pandey, head of the publicity department of Nepal Samajbadi Party-led by Babu Ram Bhattarai gets a call on August 5 from Janardan Sharma, Finance Minister and leader of CPN (Maoist Center).
“We tried hard to convince Bhattarai but failed. I have a proposal and he listens to you. You have to convince him,” Sharma says to Pandey.
Sharma proposes unity between two parties for the upcoming general elections.
“It is difficult to change party’s name and election symbols when the general election is on our door steps. So, for now, let's join hands until polls and carry out other procedures of unification after polls,” Sharma said.
After receiving a phone call from Sharma, Pandey contacts Bhattarai and tells him about the proposal. However, Bhattari does not seem positive toward the proposal and says that it will be a surrender.
At the end, Pandey convinces Bhattari to hold at least a meeting with Sharma. Pandey then arranges a meeting between Bhahttarai and Sharma at Chandragiri.
“If Chair Dahal and you stood together then it will send a good message to our voters and will be a crucial move in our socialist movement,” Sharma tells Bhattarai.
“We believe that we cannot join hands with CPN (MC). It will be a lengthy process. Let’s form a unity coordination committee, go to elections with functional unity and announce unification after polls on the day we change the party’s name,” Bhattari says on his part.
The two leaders discuss for more than an hour but fail to reach a decision.
The next day, Bhattari and Pandey hold a meeting with Ganga Shrestha and discuss Sharma’s proposal. Three leaders agreed on going to the election, forging a functional unity with the CPN (Maoist Center) , forming a unity coordination committee.
The two parties then meet at Hattiban after Maoist Center’s Chair Dahal returns from Japan. But, the meeting ends without making any sort of decisions. Leaders then suggest Bhattari and Dahal to hold a ‘one to one’ meeting and two leaders meet the next day accordingly at Khumaltar.
“I joined hands with CPN-UML. You also went through a lot of things trying to be established as an alternative power in the country. We both failed and learned lessons. So, now, let’s join hands. For now, let’s contest the upcoming election by preparing the same election manifesto and using the same election symbol. We can change the party’s name after elections,” Dahal proposed to Bhattarai.
Two leaders agree and the meeting ends.
With this, the Bhattari-led Nepal Samajbadi Party is now all set to contest the upcoming general election using the election symbol of CPN (Maoist Center).
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KATHMANDU: The Election Commission (EC) has decided to provide 73 fringe political parties their own election symbol for the forth coming local election purpose. According to EC spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel, the meeting of the EC officials held on Sunday decided to give the small parties the election symbols they had got in the previous […]
KATHMANDU, July 5: At a time when the Supreme Court (SC) is almost finalizing the hearing on the House dissolution case, the Election Commission (EC) has published the schedule for the November midterm elections.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the lower House of parliament on May 22 and declared that the mid-term polls will be held in two phases --- first on November 12 and the other on November 19--- on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
The poll body, on Monday, made the work schedule as per the government’s decision.
According to the routine, the election period is scheduled to kick off from July 15. The EC will announce the registration of the political parties aspiring to contest for the polls.
By September 8, the updated electoral roll will be published.
Candidate nomination for the first phase of election will take place on October 6 and 7. Final list of candidates with their election symbols will be published on October 11.
Nomination of candidates for the second phase of election to be held on November 19 is scheduled to happen on October 17 and 18. The final list of the candidates will be released on October 22. Candidates will also be provided their election symbol on that day.
