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1 November 2025

Senior leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre) attend the party secretariat meeting as they inch closer to the unification process with six other parties in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 1, 2025. The Secretariat of the CPN (Maoist Centre)'s General Convention Organizing Committee commences on November 1, 2025. The meeting is chaired by Committee Coordinator and Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The unification process among the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, and the rebel faction of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led CPN reaches its final stage.

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1 November 2025

Senior leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre) attend the party secretariat meeting as they inch closer to the unification process with six other parties in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 1, 2025. The Secretariat of the CPN (Maoist Centre)'s General Convention Organizing Committee commences on November 1, 2025. The meeting is chaired by Committee Coordinator and Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The unification process among the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, and the rebel faction of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led CPN reaches its final stage.

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1 November 2025

Senior leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre) attend the party secretariat meeting as they inch closer to the unification process with six other parties in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 1, 2025. The Secretariat of the CPN (Maoist Centre)'s General Convention Organizing Committee commences on November 1, 2025. The meeting is chaired by Committee Coordinator and Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The unification process among the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, and the rebel faction of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led CPN reaches its final stage.

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1 November 2025

Senior leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre) attend the party secretariat meeting as they inch closer to the unification process with six other parties in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 1, 2025. The Secretariat of the CPN (Maoist Centre)'s General Convention Organizing Committee commences on November 1, 2025. The meeting is chaired by Committee Coordinator and Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The unification process among the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, and the rebel faction of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led CPN reaches its final stage.

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1 November 2025

Senior leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre) attend the party secretariat meeting as they inch closer to the unification process with six other parties in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 1, 2025. The Secretariat of the CPN (Maoist Centre)'s General Convention Organizing Committee commences on November 1, 2025. The meeting is chaired by Committee Coordinator and Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. The unification process among the CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Nepal, and the rebel faction of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led CPN reaches its final stage.

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#12781028

21 September 2025

Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Senior Vice Chair of the CPN-Maoist Center, greets followers as he arrives at the party office in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 21, 2025, to attend the office bearers meeting. In the meeting, CPN-Maoist Center leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, proposes a special convention to elect new leadership, citing the current political context. Dahal also proposes to dissolve all party committees from the central to local level. Once approved, all existing party structures from the grassroots to the central level will be dissolved, and a General Convention Organizing Committee will be formed. The committee will be tasked with organizing the special general convention in December. Prachanda also proposes calling an emergency meeting of the Central Committee within a week to formally initiate the process. This comes in the wake of the Gen-Z revolution in the Himalayan nation, which changes the political course where 74 people lose their lives when police use lethal force on protesting students.

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#12598053

29 July 2025

Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Center (CPN-MC), Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, arrives to attend the meeting of the socialist front in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 29, 2025. The four-party Socialist Front, comprising CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Communist Party of Nepal, and Nepal Samajwadi Party, holds a meeting after a showdown earlier in March 2025. The gathering comes amid mounting internal pressure on Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Unified Socialist Chair Madhav Kumar Nepal. Prachanda repeatedly proposes party unification with Nepal, but progress remains stalled. Madhav Nepal is reportedly reluctant due to the risk of internal splits, as several senior leaders in his party are inclined to return to the UML.

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29 July 2025

Former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Center (CPN-MC), Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, arrives to attend the meeting of the socialist front in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 29, 2025. The four-party Socialist Front, comprising CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Communist Party of Nepal, and Nepal Samajwadi Party, holds a meeting after a showdown earlier in March 2025. The gathering comes amid mounting internal pressure on Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Unified Socialist Chair Madhav Kumar Nepal. Prachanda repeatedly proposes party unification with Nepal, but progress remains stalled. Madhav Nepal is reportedly reluctant due to the risk of internal splits, as several senior leaders in his party are inclined to return to the UML.

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29 July 2025

Former Home Minister and leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Center, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, arrives to attend the meeting of the socialist front in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 29, 2025. The four-party Socialist Front, comprising CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Communist Party of Nepal, and Nepal Samajwadi Party, holds a meeting after a showdown in March 2025. The gathering comes amid mounting internal pressure on Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Unified Socialist Chair Madhav Kumar Nepal. Prachanda repeatedly proposes party unification with Nepal, but progress remains stalled. Madhav Nepal is reportedly reluctant due to the risk of internal splits, as several senior leaders in his party are inclined to return to the UML.

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18 July 2025

Former Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal (Center), Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal (R), and Former Home Minister Bamdev Gautam (L) attend the communist party unification announcement event in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 18, 2025. The CPN-Unified Socialist, led by Madhav Kumar Nepal, and the CPN Unity National Campaign, led by Bamdev Gautam, announce their merger during a ceremony at City Hall in the capital, Kathmandu. With the merger, Bamdev Gautam, the campaign coordinator, formally joins the CPN-Unified Socialist, which forms after a split with the CPN-Unified Marxist Leninist led by KP Sharma Oli following an intra-party rift. As per the merger agreement, Gautam, also a former Home Minister, receives the third most senior position in the Unified Socialist after party chair Madhav Kumar Nepal and senior leader Jhalanath Khanal. The Unified Socialist and the group led by Gautam split from the CPN-UML in 2021 and have been operating separately since. Over the past four years, both sides engage in formal and informal negotiations towards party reunification. In 2021, after breaking off from CPN-UML, both former Prime Ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal form the CPN (Unified Socialist), while Gautam chooses not to join the new party. Gautam at the time launches his own CPN Unity National Campaign, announcing he will work to bring all the communist forces under a single umbrella by not joining any side, the CPN-UML, US, or the Maoist Center. Though multiple rounds of talks are initiated, an agreement does not work out.

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18 July 2025

Former Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal (Center), Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal (R), and Former Home Minister Bamdev Gautam (L) attend the communist party unification announcement event in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 18, 2025. The CPN-Unified Socialist, led by Madhav Kumar Nepal, and the CPN Unity National Campaign, led by Bamdev Gautam, announce their merger during a ceremony at City Hall in the capital, Kathmandu. With the merger, Bamdev Gautam, the campaign coordinator, formally joins the CPN-Unified Socialist, which forms after a split with the CPN-Unified Marxist Leninist led by KP Sharma Oli following an intra-party rift. As per the merger agreement, Gautam, also a former Home Minister, receives the third most senior position in the Unified Socialist after party chair Madhav Kumar Nepal and senior leader Jhalanath Khanal. The Unified Socialist and the group led by Gautam split from the CPN-UML in 2021 and have been operating separately since. Over the past four years, both sides engage in formal and informal negotiations towards party reunification. In 2021, after breaking off from CPN-UML, both former Prime Ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal form the CPN (Unified Socialist), while Gautam chooses not to join the new party. Gautam at the time launches his own CPN Unity National Campaign, announcing he will work to bring all the communist forces under a single umbrella by not joining any side, the CPN-UML, US, or the Maoist Center. Though multiple rounds of talks are initiated, an agreement does not work out.

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#6488740

3 March 2021

Federal Chairman of Janta Samajbadi party Baburam Bhattarai get his first dose of covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford- AstraZeneca Plc in Civil Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Federal lawmakers, parliament secretariat staffers, ministers and senior leaders took their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 to attend House session called on March 7, 2021.

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#6488736

3 March 2021

Nepalese politician of the Nepali Congress Prakash Man Singh get his first dose of covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford- AstraZeneca Plc in Civil Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Federal lawmakers, parliament secretariat staffers, ministers and senior leaders took their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 to attend House session called on March 7, 2021.

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3 March 2021

A Staff of Federal Parliament get first dose of covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford- AstraZeneca Plc in Civil Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Federal lawmakers, parliament secretariat staffers, ministers and senior leaders took their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 to attend House session called on March 7, 2021.

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3 March 2021

A Staff of Federal Parliament get first dose of covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford- AstraZeneca Plc in Civil Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Federal lawmakers, parliament secretariat staffers, ministers and senior leaders took their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 to attend House session called on March 7, 2021.

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3 March 2021

Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokhrel shows vaccination card after getting his first dose of covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford- AstraZeneca Plc in Civil Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Federal lawmakers, parliament secretariat staffers, ministers and senior leaders took their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19 to attend House session called on March 7, 2021.

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