Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), was a minor communist party in Nepal. The party was as founded in 1981 by Krishna Das Shrestha. Initially it was known as the Nepal Marxist-Leninist Party. Shrestha had broken away from the Bagmati District Committee of the Communist Party of Nepal in 1969.
Communist Party of Nepal was a small communist party in Nepal. The group was formed by Keshar Jung Rayamajhi after he was expelled from the pro-Soviet Communist Party of Nepal in September 1983, due to his pro-monarchic actions. Rayamjhi's new party held a 'Special Congress' in March 1984. The congress elected Rayamjhi as the general secretary of the new formation. After 1985, the party became largely dormant. By 1986 there were reports that Rayamjhi had been however soon expelled from the party, which after his expulsion took the name 'Matri Samuha'.
The Communist Party of Nepal was a communist party in Nepal 1974-1990. It was the major communist group in Nepal during the latter part of the 1970s, but gradually lost influence due to internal disputes. The party actively participated in the struggle for democracy in 1990, and its leader took part in writing the Nepalese Constitution. It later merged with other forces to form the Communist Party of Nepal, out of which the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) emerged.
Communist Party of Nepal (Masal), was a communist party in Nepal. CPN (Masal) was formed in 1983, following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal. The party was led by Mohan Bikram Singh.
Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal), was an underground communist party in Nepal. CPN (Mashal) was formed in November 1984, following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal (Masal). The new party was founded at a congress in Gorakhpur, India. It was difficult to identify any major ideological difference between the two factions, and probably the split was caused by dissatisfaction with Singh's authoritarian leadership methods. Mohan Baidya became general secretary of the new party. Other Central Committee members elected at the Gorakhpur conference were Chitra Bahadur K.C., Ramsingh Shris, Bhairav Regmi, Govindsingh Thapa, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Khambasingh Kubar, Bachaspati Devkota, C.P. Gajurel, Dev Gurung, Ishwari Dahal, Bishnu Pokhrel and Bhakta Bahadur Shrestha.
Communist Party of Nepal (Burma), initially known simply as Communist Party of Nepal or Communist Party of Nepal , was a communist party in Nepal. The party emerged from a split in the original Communist Party of Nepal in 1962, representing the pro-Soviet sector of the party. Its main leader until 1983 was Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, who had been the general secretary of the original CPN.
Proletarian Labours League was a communist group in Nepal. It published (proletarian) Sarvhara (सर्वहारा) as its central organ.
Sahana Pradhan was a Nepalese politician from a Newar family in Kathmandu. She resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal on April 16, 2008. She also served as Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal within the coalition government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala from 2007 to 2008.
Local elections to a municipal council for Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, were first held on September 9, 1953. Candidates nominated by the illegal Communist Party of Nepal got 50% of the total votes cast. Out of a total of 19 seats, six were won by communists, four by Nepali Congress, four by Praja Parishad, one by Gorkha Parishad and four by independents.
Keshar Jung Rayamajhi was a Nepalese politician. He was a leading figure in the communist movement in the country, but later turned into a royalist. Rayamajhi hails from a landlord Chetri family in Tansen, Palpa district.
Arbindanath Rimal is a Nepalese writer and intellectual.
The Communist Unity Contact Forum Nepal was a Nepalese communist organisation. It was founded in July 1974 by communists who had developed differences with the Communist Party of Nepal. The group was based in western Nepal and in exile in India. The organisation published Rato Jhanda. The ideology of the group was Marxism–Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, and it worked for the creation of a militant and well-organised communist party. The group accused Manmohan Adhikari, Pushpa Lal Shrestha and Mohan Bikram Singh for factionalism.
The People's Democratic United Front was a short-lived political coalition in Nepal, formed by the Communist Party of Nepal and the Nepal Praja Parishad in July 1951 to fight against the Rana-Nepali Congress combine. Tanka Prasad Acharya was the chairman of the front and Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya the general secretary. Except for the two main political parties, constituents of the front included the Nepal Youth Association, the All Nepal Youth Association, All Nepal Workers Association, All Nepal Women's Association, All Nepal Students Federation, Progressive Study Group and Social Reform Association.
Rishi Devkota, alias Azad (आजाद), was a Nepalese communist leader. He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Nepal, but resigned from the party in 1980, accusing it of reformism and being soft on Soviet social imperialism. He formed a group known as the 'Rebel Unity Centre' around him. Devkota was captured by police in February 1981, and killed two days later in Bhiman, Sindhuli District.
All Nepal National Free Students Union (Sixth) was a students organisation in Nepal. It is the students wing of the Communist Party of Nepal, later of the Communist Party of Nepal. In 2002, ANNFSU (Sixth) merged with the All Nepal National Independent Students Union (2022) and formed the All Nepal National Independent Students Union (United).
Mohan Chandra Adhikari is a former communist politician in Nepal. He hails from a Brahmin family in Morang District. Adhikari studied up to B.A. level, but didn't appear in the final exams. Adhikari had been a follower of Pushpa Lal Shrestha, but turned more radical than his mentor. Adhikari became a leader of the group in the Jhapa District Committee of the Communist Party which in the early 1970s intended to initiate a rebellion on the lines of the Naxalite insurgency in India.
Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is a Nepalese communist politician, belonging to Communist Party of Nepal. Karmacharya is one of the most senior political leaders of the communist movement in Nepal being the only surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal, which had been born in 1949.
The Rebel Unity Centre was a communist grouping in Nepal, formed after Rishi Devkota (Azad) split away from the Communist Party of Nepal in 1980. In November 1981, the group merged into the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist).
Bachaspati Devkota is a Nepali politician. He is a member of Communist Party of Nepal. In 1967, he actively took part nationwide student movement for the free student union and eventually became one of the founder members of the All Nepal National Free Students' Union (ANNFSU), one of the strongest students organization of Nepal.
