CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has remarked that the unification between his party CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Centre) and Naya Shakti Party Nepal is the beginning of a new chapter in Nepal’s politics.

At a programme organised to announce the electoral alliance between the parties in the upcoming Parliamentary elections and subsequent unification of the parties in Kathmandu on Tuesday, Oli underscored the need for unifying the parties to form a single communist party dedicated to the country and people.

He added that the parties are forging an electoral alliance for the upcoming Parliamentary and provincial elections apart from the unification. He claimed that it wouldn’t be possible for the parties to contest in the elections under the same election symbol due to legal complications.

Saying that the proposed unification and electoral alliance are not against any political parties, leader Oli, who is also a former Prime Minister, said that other political parties—except communist party—can also join hands in the unification process. “Leftist, progressive and democratic parties can also take part in the unification,” he said.

He remarked that all kinds of discrimination and oppression based on geography, profession, caste, religion would end after the unification. “The unification was needed for justice, rights, opportunities, security and high respect to everyone,” said Oli.

He made it clear that the unification was done because national interest is more important that personal interest.  “We will maintain our foreign relations based on balanced, friendly, equality and as an independent nation,” he added.