Can a United Socialist party become a big party in the Far-West?
Dhangadhi: The process of electing a newly formed CPN (Unified Socialist) is underway in the Far-West, leaving the CPN-UML. So far, 10 members of the CPN-UML have elected the newly formed CPN-Unified Socialist Party by formally attending the meeting in the provincial election office in Dhangadhi.
They have been in the Nepal group since the past. Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Purna Joshi, Minister for Social Development Lal Bahadur Khadka, Former Minister Maya Bhatt, Ministers of State Chun Kumari Chaudhary, Manakumari Saund, Chief Whip Durga Kumari Kami, State MPs Kulbir Chaudhary, Amar Bahadur Saud, Bal Bahadur Sodari and Sushila Budhathoki are in favor of the new party led by Madhav Kumar Nepal.
He has identified himself in favor of a unified socialist. Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Dirgha Bahadur Sodari, Minister for Economic Affairs and Law Prakash Bahadur Shah, Minister of State for Finance Archana Gahatraj, former Minister Krishna Raj Subedi, former Minister of State Prakash Rawal, State Assembly member Tara Lama Tamang and State MP Harka Bahadur Kunwar have not been identified.
Most of them have said that they will remain in the CPN-UML. Minister Shah, Minister of State Gahat Raj, former Minister Subedi, former Minister of State Rawal and MP Kunwar have said that they will remain in the UML. Minister of State for Finance Gahat Raj told Dinesh Khabar, "I am not ready to identify in favor of the new party.
I will remain in the UML." Similarly, former ministers Pathan Singh Bohara, Ratna Thapa, Gyalbusingh Bohara, Maya Tamang Bohara, Liladhar Bhatt, Nepalu Chaudhary and Baldev Regmi, who were on Oli's side in the past, have also said that they will remain in the UML. Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Dirgha Bahadur Sodari and state MP Tara Lama Tamang, on the other hand, said that they would identify in favor of the Unified Socialists. Minister Sodari said, "10 people have been identified.
The rest of us do the same. We are trying to add 2/3 again." He has claimed that the Unified Socialist Party will be bigger than the CPN-UML in the state assembly. "We are trying to form a big party in the state," Sodari told Dinesh Khabar. "If not possible, 12 out of 24 people will be in the Unified Socialist Party." Apart from the Speaker, there were 24 UML MPs in the state assembly. After 10 people identified themselves as Unified Socialists, UML now has 14 MPs. There is a possibility of arithmetic change as there is a facility to identify by September 7.