A team of lawmakers from the then CPN (UML), which had split, arrived at the Election Commission office in Bahadur Bhawan on August 18, 2021. At that time, former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was leading the party split. The scene where young leader Ram Kumari Jhakri held Nepal’s hand and guided him into the Election Commission drew the attention of many.

However, four years, two months, and 18 days later—that is, on November 5, 2025—a 180-degree change has been observed in that scene at Bahadur Bhawan. Nepal, who split the UML to form CPN (Unified Socialist), has merged into the Nepali Communist Party at Bhrikutimandap, while Jhakri has announced the end of her journey with Nepal. She has also declared that she is no longer with the CPN (Unified Socialist).

The four-year relationship between Nepal and Jhakri with the CPN (Unified Socialist) has ended, and the CPN (Unified Socialist), which they and others had formed, has dissolved into a new party named the Nepali Communist Party. Jhakri announced at a press conference at Hotel Basera in Babarmahal early Wednesday morning that she was not staying in the CPN (US). Regarding the incident at Bahadur Bhawan four years ago, Jhankri said, “Time will provide the answer.”

Ram Kumari Jhakri at the program organized at Basera Hotel in Anamnagar. Photo: Nepal Photo Library

Jhakri has announced her unconditional return to the UML. She stated that during the initial days of forming the Unified Socialist party, it was expected that a tremendous campaign would be launched. Her statement was, “But that chapter has ended today. To decide how to move forward when the path is blocked, one must also stand on the path itself.”

Meanwhile, Chairman Nepal of CPN (US) and another leader, former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal, along with a majority of Central Committee members, have merged into the Nepali Communist Party. The announcement ceremony for the new party, formed by the unification of ten parties, was held at Bhrikutimandap on November 5.

Even though Jhakri and Nepal have chosen separate paths, the General Secretary of CPN (US), Ghanshyam Bhusal, has neither gone to the UML nor participated in the unification with Nepal. He has announced the launch of a new campaign, stating that the old leaders are obstacles to a broad communist unity. With the three different groups of CPN (Unified Socialist) leaders going their separate ways, the party has formally split into three fragments. To what extent, the party that was formed with great ambition has ended without ever becoming a national party.

Former Prime Minister Khanal, who was also a respected leader of CPN (US), went to meet CPN (UML) Chairman KP Sharma Oli in Gundu, Bhaktapur, yesterday. However, in the end, he appeared at the unity announcement ceremony of the Nepali Communist Party. Indeed, former Prime Minister Nepal has become the Co-coordinator of the Nepali Communist Party, and Khanal has been given the third rank. The convener of the new party, however, is Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Chairman of the Maoist Center.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Bamdev Gautam, and others at the unity announcement ceremony. Photo: Nepal Photo Library

Before going to the unity announcement ceremony, Khanal held discussions with Maoist Chairman Dahal early Wednesday morning. Earlier, he had expressed written disagreement with the left unity. But on Wednesday afternoon, he participated in the joint meeting of the Central Committee of the nine political parties to join the unification. At the ceremony held at Bhrikutimandap, Khanal said, “There is a reason for my late arrival. I have told everything to Comrade Prachanda. He has committed to sort things out. Based on that trust, even with some reservations, there is no alternative but to unite, and I have come here to strengthen the unity.”

The new party formed by Dahal, Nepal, and Khanal—the Nepali Communist Party—includes the Maoist Center, Unified Socialist, Nepal Samajwadi Party, Jana Samajwadi Party Nepal, CPN (Socialist), CPN (Maoist Socialist), CPN (Samyabadi), Deshbhakta Samajwadi Morcha, and Communist Party of Nepal.

Before the announcement ceremony of the Nepali Communist Party, General Secretary Ghanshyam Bhusal of CPN (US) held a press conference in Tripureshwor and announced a separate campaign for broad left-wing unity. Bhusal had said, “We wrote a new constitution, a new state system was formed, and major and new changes occurred in the structure of society due to migration and market expansion; the slogans and mandates of the political parties became new—everything became new. But the leadership of the old political parties has not changed.”

Ghanshyam Bhusal at the press conference held in Tripureshwor. Photo:Nepal Photo Library

He stated that a national gathering would be organized in the first week of December. Vice Chairman Ghanendra Basnet and Jeevan Ram Shrestha, among other leaders, were present with Bhusal.