Maoist Centre, Nepal Socialist Party to expedite unification process

Kathmandu, Nov 19: The CPN (Maoist Centre) and Nepal Socialist Party have reached an agreement to proceed with the unification process.

A meeting between the negotiation teams of the two parties took place at the Maoist Center's party office in Paris Danda today decided to accelerate the unification process.     

According to a joint press statement issued after the meeting, both parties have been advised to establish a party unification coordination committee to address the issues concerning the party's statute, name, organizational structure, election symbol, and so on.     

The statement was jointly released by Maoist Centre's talks team coordinator Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Nepal Socialist Party's team coordinator Ganga Narayan Shrestha. Maoist Centre's general secretary Dev Prasad Gurung and Nepal Socialist leader Durga Sob were also among those attending the meeting. (RSS)