Communist Party General Secretary Netra Bikram Chand, Progressive Movement leader and former Deputy General Secretary of the Maoists Janardan Sharma, and former General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party Ghanashyam Bhusal have taken the initiative to form a 'New Communist Center'.

The three leaders who are against the unity of the Maoists, CPN-S and other parties have said that they will immediately form a 'front of communists, socialists, progressives and patriots' and form a communist center after ideological and theoretical discussions.

Instead of uniting with the old parties, they have decided to form a new party and go to the elections. They say that they will immediately run a campaign on the issues of good governance, employment, socialist creation and nationality through a broad front of leftists and socialists. An agreement was reached to cooperate between the leftist and patriotic forces in a meeting held at Chand's residence Hattivan on Friday morning. They made the joint resolution public that afternoon.

'We have agreed to cooperate politically for a broad leftist campaign,' Bhusal told Kantipur, 'We have also agreed to discuss forming a front with other socialist forces in the country.'

Chand, who reached the Election Commission to complete the party registration process on Friday, clarified that the front was started with three objectives in mind. "We have thought of three things - first, to take the initiative to build a new communist center. Second, to take the initiative to build a socialist center and third, to move forward together with patriotic, socialist and communist forces to get the country out of the current unstable and critical political situation," he said.

The party's status in the country is collapsing. Bhusal said that they have come to the conclusion that cooperation between leftist, patriotic and socialist forces is necessary in such a situation.

Leader Sharma said that they will move forward according to the spirit of the Gen-G movement without rushing to build a party. "Now we have talked about cooperation and a front, we are not doing the work of building a party in a hurry," he said. During the discussion, Sharma said that since he and leader Ram Karki have already made the idea public as a campaign, it is necessary to expand it.

Chand said that the relevance of the Socialist Front under the coordination of Nepali Communist Party Coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal has ended, so we need to move forward in a new way. He is currently the coordinator of the Socialist Front. He claims that the legitimacy of the front has been questioned after the Maoists and the Unified Socialist Party of Nepal (CPN-UML) united in the front.

The three leaders, issuing a statement after the discussion on Friday, said that a large-scale campaign is necessary as nationality, democracy and people's rights are at risk and national life is insecure.

'The old political parties of the country, especially their leaders, want to cover up the crisis and protect their dominance by entrenching the old structure and methods. That is sure to push the country towards further confusion, instability and crisis. It is self-evident that we will not reach a new destination by following the old path,' the three leaders said. 'We are determined to move forward unitedly by cooperating for such a historic initiative.'

They say that the developing political developments have made the country even more confused. 'Nationality, democracy and people's rights are at risk together. National life is becoming insecure,' is the understanding of Chand, Sharma and Bhusal.