Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) (2002)

For other uses, see Communist Party of Nepal (disambiguation).

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (मार्क्सवादी-लेनिनवादी)
Leader	C.P. Mainali
Founded	2002
Ideology	Communism, Marxism-Leninism
Election symbol
Website
http://www.cpnml.org.np/
Politics of Nepal Political parties Elections

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist), a political party in Nepal formed by C.P. Mainali when the CPN(ML) reunified with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Mainali had refused to go along with the merger.

CPN(ML) is a member of the United Left Front and participated in the 2006 Loktantra Andolan.

Ahead of the 2008 Constituent Assembly election, the party presented a closed proportional representation list with 168 candidates, headed by C.P. Mainali.^[1] The party presented 116 candidates for the First Past the Post seats.^[2] It won eight seats in the election, all of them through proportional representation, with about 1.33% of the vote.

On August 6, 2010 CPN(ML) suffered another split regarding the candidate to be chosen in upcoming Prime Ministerial election. The split was led by former minister Jagat Bahadur Bogati and it included four CA members. The new party was named CPN-ML(Samajwadi). ^[3]

References

1. ^ Ca Election report
2. ^ Ca Election report
3. ^ [1]

External links

• www.cpnml.org

Communism in Nepal Leaders Pushpa Lal Shrestha Mohan Bikram Singh Manmohan Adhikari Keshar Jung Rayamajhi Chandra Prakash Mainali Sahana Pradhan Madan Kumar Bhandari Madhav Kumar Nepal Prachanda Baburam Bhattarai Current groups CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) CPN (Maoist) CPN (United Marxist) CPN (Marxist-Leninist) CPN (Masal) CPN (United) CPN (Unified) Nepal Workers Peasants Party Defunct groups Communist Party of Nepal Nepal Communist League CPN (Burma) CPN (Pushpa Lal) CPN (4th Convention) CPN (Marxist-Leninist) CPN (Masal) CPN (Mashal) CPN (Manmohan) CPN (Marxist) (1st) CPN (Marxist) (2nd) CPN (Democratic) CPN (Unity Centre) CPN (MLM) CPN (Samyabadi) CPN (MLM Centre) CPN (United) CPN (Unity Centre-Masal) Related articles Communism History of Nepal Nepalese Civil War Politics of Nepal Political parties in Nepal Elections in Nepal Communism Portal This box: view · talk · edit