The merger may boost the left’s chances of revival in the country in the March elections, after the so-called Gen Z protests forced the left-liberal alliance to relent power in September of this year.

Madhav Kumar Nepal, the former Prime Minister of Nepal, explains the politics around US interests in the region in the light of the controversial Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Madhav Kumar talks about the ongoing political instability in the country, the threat posed by the rising influence of the far right, and the path ahead for the left to defend Nepal’s socialist and secular values enshrined in the constitution.

Dahal, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), will be prime minister for two-and-a-half years after which he will be succeeded by his erstwhile rival K.P. Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)

The party took a key step in the unification process with the announcement of the leadership of mass organizations. It is also in the process of reviewing its political and ideological line.