- Communist Party of Nepal (United)
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Communist Party of Nepal (United)
नेपाल कम्यूनिष्ट पार्टी (संयुक्त)President Chandra Dev Joshi Secretary-General Ganesh Shah Founded 2007 Ideology Communism Election symbol Politics of Nepal
Political parties
ElectionsCommunist 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.
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