While they have already proposed a name -- Federal Socialist Party -- the leaders at a meeting in Kathmandu on Saturday constituted a nine-member taskforce to finalize the draft of the party statute.[break]
"The members of the taskforce include leaders from CPN-UML, Maoists, Nepali Congress and intellectuals such as lawyers," CPN-UML Central Committee member Ajambar Kangmang Rai told Republica.
However, he preferred to keep the names secret saying it was too early to disclose their names and that it wouldn´t do any good for their movement.
According to him, a group of around 35 key leaders from major political parties have been regularly working toward forming an alternative political force in the recent days. They discussed about the new party´s manifesto at a meeting on Friday and that they were going to deliberate over the proposed party´s political programs on Sunday.
Rai claimed that it was not just dissidents politicians from CPN-UML who were forming the new party but also a large number of leaders and cadres from other major political parties and groups were joining the new force.
A group of dissident leaders from Madhesi, ethnic and indigenous communities have revolted within CPN-UML expressing their serious differences over the party´s official position on federalism. UML Vice-Chairman Ashok Rai is leading the group demanding that nomenclature and delineation of provinces in future federal set up should be based on single-ethnic identity while the party establishment has turned down the demand insisting on multiethnic provinces.
UML dissidents have already formed parallel committees in several districts and are holding gatherings there.
Also, several leaders in the NC and Maoist party have expressed differences over their respective party´s leadership for being reluctant to go for a federal model based on single-ethnic identity.
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