- Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), was a minor communist party in
Nepal . The party was as founded in 1981 byKrishna Das Shrestha . Initially it was known as the Nepal Marxist-Leninist Party. Shrestha had broken away from theBagmati District Committee (which functioned semiautnomously) of the Communist Party of Nepal in 1969. [Rawal, Bhim Bahadur. "Nepalma samyabadi andolan: udbhab ra vikas". Kathmandu: Pairavi Prakashan. Chart nr. 1.]Krishna Das Shrestha was the party president.
During the 1990 popular uprising against the monarchy, the group formed part of the radical
United National People's Movement . [Hoftun, Martin, William Raeper and John Whelpton. People, politics and ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal. Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 119]In
1991 the party was one of the organizations that founded theSamyukta Jana Morcha [ [https://www2.amnesty.de/internet/Gutachte.nsf/425c2f14a274dabdc1256aa4005b3a0a/49ab23b379adaacdc1256aaa003a8085?OpenDocument Amnesty.de] ] , but it left it following the election. [Upreti, B.C.. "The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Nature, Growth and Impact". In South Asian Survey 13:1 (2006), page 37]CPN(MLM) took part in the Joint People's Agitation Committee, which had called for a
general strike onApril 6 1992 . Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to thehuman rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing. [Hoftun, Martin, William Raeper and John Whelpton. People, politics and ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal. Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 189]Ahead of the 1992 elections to local bodies CPN(MLM) took part in forming a front together with the Samyukta Jana Morcha,
Nepal Workers Peasants Party , Communist Party of Nepal (15 September 1949) andNepal Communist League . [Hoftun, Martin, William Raeper and John Whelpton. People, politics and ideology: Democracy and Social Change in Nepal. Kathmandu: Mandala Book Point, 1999. p. 190]In
1996 CPN(MLM) denounced theMahakali Treaty betweenIndia andNepal .In the parliamentary elections in
1999 CPN(MLM) had put up three candidates.CPN(MLM) later joined the United Left Front, which demands a Constitutional Assembly as the solution to the political crisis.
In
2005 CPN(MLM) merged with a splinter-group,Nepal Samyabadi Party (Marksbadi-Leninbadi-Maobadi) of Nanda Kumar Prasai, and formed theCommunist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Centre) .ee also
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Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)
*Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)
*Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Centre)
*Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) References
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