Former CPN (Maoist Centre) Leader Ravi Gautam and Others Join CPN-UML

Kathmandu. Former Central Committee member of the then CPN (Maoist Centre), Ravi Gautam, along with other leaders, has joined the CPN-UML. On Sunday, Gautam, along with leaders from the Nepali Communist Party and the Rastriya Swatantra Party at the provincial and district levels, joined the CPN-UML.

They were welcomed into the CPN-UML by Vice Chairman Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal at a program organized at the UML Central Office in Chyasal. Narayan Prasad Sapkota, a youth leader of the CPN-UML and former member of the Bagmati Province Committee, was instrumental in bringing them into the CPN-UML.

Among those joining the CPN-UML, there are 10 individuals from the CPN and 1 from the RSP. Those joining the CPN-UML include two Bagmati Province Committee members and four Kathmandu District Committee members from the CPN.

Furthermore, three Tokha Municipality Committee members also joined the CPN-UML. Two members could not attend as they were outside the valley but stated they would proceed according to the party's decision. Among those starting their journey with the CPN-UML is one Bagmati Province Committee member from the Rastriya Swatantra Party. Badal also welcomed Rajendra Regmi, a Bagmati Province Committee member of the RSP, into the CPN-UML.

Who Joined?

1. Ravi Gautam 'Prabhat', Former Central Committee Member of Maoist

2. Ramkumar Thapa, Bagmati Province Committee Member and In-charge of Tarkeshwor Municipality

3. Bhushan Maharjan, Bagmati Province Committee Member

4. Prakash Bhandari, Kathmandu District Committee Member

5. Shyam Bhandari, Kathmandu District Committee Member

6. Sangam Baidya, Tokha Municipality Committee Member

7. Raju Lama, Tokha Municipality Committee Member

8. Prakash Lama, Municipality Member Tokha (Currently Ward Secretary)

9. Rajendra Regmi, Rastriya Swatantra Party, Bagmati Province Member