With split in UML and JSP, CPN-UML (Samajbadi), JSP (Democratic) registered

KATHMANDU, Aug 18: Main opposition CPN-UML has split formally. With this, a team of leaders led by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal reached the Election Commission on Wednesday and applied for party registration under the name- CPN UML (Samajbadi) on Wednesday. 

EC Spokesperson Raj Kumar Shrestha informed that an application for new party CPN UML (Samajbadi) was registered at EC. The new party has 22 federal lawmakers (HoR and National Assembly) and 58 central committee members who earlier belonged to the CPN-UML, according to a leader Rajendra Pasad Pandey. 

It has proposed a 95-member central committee under the chairmanship of  Madhav Nepal. The party got the registration number 433.

Similarly, on Wednesday itself, another group of leaders applied for the party registration under the name- Janata Samajbadi Party (Democratic). It came as a new party after the existing Janata Samajbadi Party split formally.

The party has proposed a 24-member executive committee led by leader Mahantha Thakur. This party has 14 lawmakers and 14 central members. The new party got the registration number 434.