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Maoist negotiator says UML-Maoist Centre unification on April 22

Maoist leader Janardan Sharma

Kathmandu, March 30

A key Maoist leader who is involved in negotiations between the CPN-Maoist Centre and the CPN-UML says the two parties are certain about the unification of two parties at the earliest.

Janardan Sharma reveals that the two parties are set to announce the merger on April 22 on the anniversary of Communist Party of Nepal.

Whereas uncertainty has loomed over their plan as his party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal recently said the unification would be held only if there was a 50:50 partnership, Sharma claims all such issues have been settled.

Even the parties have already made an understanding on the role of Dahal in the unified party, according to him. “We have already decided that KP Oli will be a chairman of the unified party whereas Prachanda will be the other. Now, we are working for management of other leaders and cadres.”

About Dahal’s controversial statement, Sharma says, “Prachanda (Dahal) did not make any anti-unification statement. He just said that the two parties would unify on the basis of equality.”

A confidant of Dahal, Sharma told Onlinekhabar in an interview, “We are not going to disappear into each other; the two parties are unifying to form the Communist Party of Nepal.”

“The base of unification is not about number and percentage. It is neither 50:50, nor 60:40,” he clarifies, “It is just equality.”

“There is no other bottom line, neither did our Chairman say it was a bottom line,” he says, “He talked about the theoretical basis, not the number.”

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