Even after a month and a half since the declaration of unity, organizational structures have not been formed at the provincial, district, and municipal levels.
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The Nepali Communist Party, which had seemed enthusiastic after the party unification, has slowed down in its organizational development. Even after a month and a half of the party unification in Lumbini Province, no organizational activities have been carried out.
On Kartik 19, 8 parties announced the Nepali Communist Party. Almost a month later, on Mangsir 13, a Lumbini province-level unity message meeting was held in Lamahi, Dang. After that, unity meetings were held in the districts. However, although there were plans to hold unity meetings after the district level up to the municipality and ward levels, the meeting programs have now slowed down.
As for the organization structure, construction and responsibilities, the activities at the provincial and district levels have also become inactive since no decision or directive has been received from the central level.
In the party unity announcement meeting, it was informed that the Central Committee of the Nepali Communist Party will have Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chairman of the CPN Maoist Center, as the coordinator and Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairman of the CPN Unified Socialist Party, as the co-coordinator. However, no information has been given yet about how/who will lead it in the province, district, municipality and ward, said Lumbini Province Chairman of the CPN Maoist Center, Sudarshan Baral.
‘Currently, there is a state of organizational confusion and inaction in the Nepali Communist Party across the country,’ he said, ‘The leaders of the Nepali Communist Party have not been able to complete the central committee, and there is no directive on what will happen in the provinces, districts, cities and wards.’
Of the nine parties participating in the unification process, only the CPN Maoist Center and the CPN Unified Socialist Party are present in many districts of Lumbini Province. In Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Banke, Nawalparasi and Bardiya, there are also organizations of the CPN Majority, Jana Samajwadi and CPN Rebel. However, in most of the districts where joint meetings were held, joint meetings were held only in the presence of cadres of the former Maoist Center and CPN S.
Nirmal GC, the district president of the former Maoist Center in Rupandehi, said that the current municipal-level meetings are also attended by a similar number of people. ‘There is no directive on how to form the organization,’ he said, ‘Work is being done to gather in the name of the message assembly.’ He said that only the former Maoist Center, CPN-S and Jana Samajwadi, which came into the unification process in Rupandehi, have an organizational structure.
After the unification, a parliamentary party has been formed in the Lumbini Provincial Assembly under the leadership of the leaders of the former Maoist Center. The leader of the parliamentary party has been selected as the Maoist Center’s Jokh Bahadur Mahara, the Maoist Indrajit Tharu as the chief whip, and the former Samajwadi Bhagwati Neupane as the whip, and this has been informed to the Provincial Assembly. Apart from that, no other structure has been changed, Baral said.
Metmani Chaudhary, who is also the provincial in-charge of the CPN-Unified Samajwadi, said that discussions are underway on the completion of the central committee and that discussions will be held at the provincial and district levels after that.
‘Organization building has slowed down, but now the formation will happen soon,’ he said, ‘It seems that there has been some delay because intensive discussions are underway to raise a party together. However, it has not slowed down.’
A provincial member of the former Maoists said that even though the UML, which is about to disintegrate, has selected representatives from across the country and concluded its convention amid the same difficulties, the Nepali Communist Party, which had united, has reached a point of further disintegration.
‘It was called a declaration of unity,’ he said, ‘Now, looking at the organizational structure and building process, it has reached a point of disintegration rather than unity.’ He also said that even though the Nepali Communist Party has started selecting candidates for the House of Representatives and the National Assembly across the country and focusing on the general convention, there has been no activity in the Nepali Communist Party.
