Communist Party of Nepal (United)

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

Not to be confused with Communist Party of Nepal (Unified).

Communist Party of Nepal (United) नेपाल कम्यूनिष्ट पार्टी (संयुक्त)
President	Chandra Dev Joshi
Secretary-General	Ganesh Shah
Founded	2007
Ideology	Communism
Election symbol
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Communist Party of Nepal (United) is a political party in Nepal. It was founded in 2007, following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist).

Ganesh Shah is the general secretary of the party and Chandra Dev Joshi is the party chairman.^[1]

In 2008 Nepal's first openly homosexual representative, Sunil Babu Pant was elected to the Constituent Assembly as a member of the CPN (United)^[2]

In the Maoist-led government, Ganesh Shah was nominated Minister of Science, Technology and Environment.

References

1. ^ The Rising Nepal
2. ^ Gay Life on About.com: Coming Out, Relationship and Gay Lifestyle Advice

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