KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Deputy General Secretary of the CPN (Maoist Centre) Janardan Sharma is set to visit the Election Commission (EC) to claim the party’s name and its election symbol.
According to a leader close to Sharma, he decided to take this step after Pushpa Kamal Dahal attempted to dissolve the Maoist Centre. As the party’s deputy general secretary, Sharma believes he has the legitimate authority to assert his claim over the name and symbol.
Maoist Center’s Janardan Sharma leading in Rukum West
Earlier, when Maoist Centre Coordinator Dahal decided to merge into the Nepali Communist Party, Sharma refused to join and chose to stay outside the merger.
Sharma has long urged Dahal, the then-chairperson of the Maoist Centre, to step down and hand over leadership to the new generation. Instead, Dahal brought in leaders over 70 years old—including Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhalanath Khanal, Bamdev Gautam, and Prem Bahadur Singh—effectively diluting the Maoist ideology within the party.
Arguing that Maoism has been dissolved, Sharma, along with fellow leader Ram Karki, is now heading to the EC with the intention of restructuring the Maoist Centre.
Meanwhile, on Friday morning, a meeting was held between Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav), Sharma, and Ghanshyam Bhusal, General Secretary of the Unified Socialist, at Biplav’s residence in Harisiddhi.
