Gopal Kirati, chairman of the Patriotic Socialist Front, has unified with the CPN (Maoist Centre). On Monday, a unity agreement was signed between Maoist coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” and Kirati.
According to the agreement, the unification aims to steer the unprecedented risks in Nepali politics toward the right direction. Under the policy from the People’s War period to “turn every adversity into advantage,” the pact states that unity and polarization among revolutionary forces is a primary duty.
The main objectives of the union are to defend the federal democratic republic won through a decade-long armed struggle, to promote development suited to Nepali society, and to commit firmly to progressive implementation. The parties agreed to form working groups to conduct objective reviews of past ideological, political, and organizational weaknesses. Guided by that review, they aim to pursue unity, struggle, and transformation from the grassroots, thereby building the capacity to shoulder the socialist mission of the Nepali revolution.
The agreement states that Kirati’s Patriotic-socialist identity and the concept of socialist democracy will be discussed methodically within the party and decisions taken on the basis of full popular democracy. To implement the pact, Kirati-led Marxist revolutionaries will polarize and consolidate within the Maoist Centre.
The unification is intended to strengthen socialist polarization among Nepalis engaged in struggles at home and abroad—workers, peasants, marginalized communities, those suffering financial exploitation and displacement, and patriotic groups defending identity, natural and cultural heritage.
Through this polarization, the parties pledge to take initiatives to reinforce Nepal’s national independence, territorial integrity, and sovereignty, and to rigorously defend and exercise the people’s sovereign power and state authority. The pact also declares the goal of ending brokered, bureaucratic, capitalist corruption by undertaking effective measures to implement a constitutionally socialist-oriented state system.
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