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Court issues arrest warrants against Chand, other leaders

report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 5, 2023The Kathmandu District Court on Monday issued arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’. The court issued the arrest notice against the party chief Chand, standing committee member Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma ‘Prakanda’, Kathmandu Valley Bureau in-charge Maila Lama ‘Prajwal’, and Raju Karki, chair of the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation Revolutionary. The court has asked them to be present…

Nine parties skip first session of talks with EC

report in The Daily Star, Nov 4,2023EC sources said at the beginning of talks around 10:45am, parties including the Bangladesh Jatiya Party, Liberal Democrat Party, Kallyan Party, Communist Party Bangladesh, Muslim League BML and Bangladesh Muslim League were absent. The commission invited 22 parties for talks in the first session and 22 parties in the second session, which is set to begin at 3:00pm. The EC is holding discussions to inform parties about its election…

Dahal’s party ready to drop ‘Maoist Centre’ tag for unity with communist parties

Report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 19, 2023In a new twist, the CPN (Maoist Centre), which is led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, has said that it can change the name of the party and remove the Maoist tag. At present, the party’s official name is CPN (Maoist Centre) and if the other communist parties and forces are ready to come together, it would be ready to drop the tag, Maoist Centre, according to…

Visiting UML delegation takes up map issue with CPC leaders in Beijing

report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023The visiting delegation of the CPN-UML raised the map issue with the leaders of the Communist Party of China during a meeting in Beijing on Monday. A high-level UML delegation led by the party’s General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel met with several CPC leaders as part of the exchange programme between the two Communist parties. “China should support Nepal’s new map [unveiled in May 2020],” Rajesh Rai, who is…

Former Maoists in UML are a frustrated lot

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 26m 2023When a Supreme Court order in March 2021 led to a split of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which was formed through a merger between two largest leftist parties, CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre), many Maoist leaders opted to remain with the UML. But after more than two years, most of them are frustrated with the way the UML leadership treated them. Most of…

China pledges Rs145 million aid for Nepal’s seven provinces

by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 25, 2023The visiting Chinese delegation led by Yuan Jiajun, a politburo member of the Communist Party of China, has pledged Rs145 million (eight million yuan) to carry out various agriculture-related projects in all seven provinces of Nepal. The projects will be funded through the China-South Asian Countries Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre, headquartered in Chongqing, China. Yuan, who is tipped as a future leader of China,…

Maoists intensify negotiations to form a ‘socialist front’

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 14, 2023Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday said that a ‘socialist front’ would soon be formed, one that will lay a strong foundation for the unification of the country’s communist forces. The motive of the socialist front, according to Maoist leaders, is to develop a common understanding among the socialist forces and take the delayed peace process to a logical…