KATHMANDU, Oct 03: The chiefs of three major left political parties CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center) and Nayashakti Party Nepal have announced to forge election alliance and contest the upcoming central and provincial parliament elections. They also announced that they will subsequently unify the three parties.

“We have already constituted a unification coordination committee that will immediately start unification process,” UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli announced in a function at Rastriya Sabhagriha on Tuesday. “We have also agreed to contest the upcoming elections jointly.”

 Babu Ram Bhattarai-led Naya Shakti is all set to join a coalition of UML-MC followed by party unification and the parties have agreed to form a joint committee to facilitate the parties for the unification after the parliamentary elections.

The official announcement was made during the joint press meet held at City Hall at 5 PM this evening. The leaders of three parties finalized the agreement paper at parliamentary party office of CPN-UML at Singh Durbar. During the press meet, UML chair KP Sharma Oli, MC chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Naya Shakti coordinator Babu Ram Bhattarai signed a seven-point agreement paper.

Bhattarai will contest the upcoming elections with ‘sun’ symbol. The parties also made public a declaration paper although UML and MC will not share a common election symbol.

 
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