KATHMANDU, April 22: Leaders of Maoist Center convened at their chairman's house in Khumaltar early morning today to push for party unification and sort out existing differences.
According to Bishnu Sapkota, press advisor of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a meeting has been ongoing since 7 AM today where Dahal is debriefing his leaders about his interactions with PM Oli.
Maoist leader Pun meets Chair Dahal
Today marks the 69th year of establishment of Communist Party of Nepal and a unification between the two communist forces was set to be announced. However, with differences over power sharing, election symbol and mentioning of 'people's war' in new party statute has delayed the merger.
Nevertheless, CPN-UML and CPN-MC will jointly mark 69 years of Communist Party of Nepal together today where Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal will jointly address their cadres in the program.
On the occasion, the Party Unification Merger Committee (PUMC) has come up with a program at the National City Hall in the noon.
