CPN-UML Vice-Chair Bishnu Paudel Reflects on Communist Movement's Setbacks and Need for Reform

Kathmandu. CPN-UML Vice-Chair Bishnu Paudel has stated that since its inception, the Nepali communist movement has achieved extraordinary milestones while also suffering devastating losses.

In a message issued on the occasion of the party's establishment day, Vice-Chair Paudel noted that the decade following the promulgation of the constitution saw the communist party successfully form a near two-thirds majority government, yet it also became the decade of the greatest failure and defeat in the history of the Nepali communist movement.

He further remarked that by 2082 Bhadra 24, the UML party, which had led the government, found itself severely marginalized.

'In the elections held on Falgun 21, a vast majority of Nepali voters rejected our party. We were forced to shrink to 9 seats out of 165 in the direct category of the House of Representatives, and a total of 25 seats out of 275 including proportional representation,' Paudel said.

Paudel emphasized the urgent need for an objective and realistic review of the entire Nepali communist movement, particularly the last decade and the period from leading the government to the conclusion of the general elections.

'It is necessary to uncover, acknowledge, and correct our mistakes and weaknesses in policy, leadership, organization, and working style,' Paudel said, adding, 'Just as we took credit for successes and achievements, we must also take responsibility for the defeat and losses. It is essential to reorganize the entire party in accordance with the demands of the time and move the Nepali communist movement forward in a new way.'