Nepal Communist Party (United) Unveils Manifesto Ahead of Elections, Focuses on Good Governance and Employment

Kathmandu. Under the slogan 'The Nepali Path to Development: Good Governance and Employment, Preparation for Socialism,' the Communist Party of Nepal (United) has publicly released its manifesto to seek votes from the electorate in the elections scheduled for Falgun 21.

The party's manifesto, unveiled at a press conference in Kathmandu on Tuesday, sets a goal of building an entrepreneurial nation. The CPN (United) stated that the current weak government plans and regulations have hindered the development of the industrial private sector and entrepreneurship. Since an economy focused only on distribution, rather than production, is destined to collapse, the current mandate is to build an entrepreneurial nation. The party indicated that the first condition for building an entrepreneurial nation is to bring the country's labor force into entrepreneurship.

'This means bringing landless or poor farmers, unorganized sector urban and rural laborers, seasonal migrant workers abroad, those who own land but must work elsewhere due to debt, women burdened by household chores, and Dalits who cannot sustain their lives through traditional occupations or have been displaced from those occupations—all into entrepreneurship and bring them into a structure of minimum wage or livelihood,' the manifesto stated.

The CPN (United) concluded that if every family dependent on agriculture is not ensured a minimum monthly income of NPR 40,000–45,000, they cannot be retained in agriculture. The party noted that rural agriculture, which has not received protection, is the main source of poverty, unemployment, and youth migration.

'It cannot be left as it is. For that, the agricultural sector must be protected,' the 56-page manifesto stated. 'Protecting agriculture means protecting 51 percent of the farmers. No one else will take responsibility for this; the state itself must take responsibility.'

The manifesto mentions that the policy of agricultural protection will enable self-sufficiency in agricultural production within 5 years, leading to the opening of a large sector of agro-based industries.

The CPN (United), which prioritized agriculture, education, health, tourism, infrastructure, information technology, and good governance in its manifesto, emphasized the need for necessary constitutional provisions and legal arrangements for the effectiveness of the federal system. 'There should be a provision that a person can be Prime Minister only twice, and a Minister and Member of Parliament a maximum of four times,' the CPN (United) stated.

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