CPN (Unified Socialist) senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has announced that his party and the CPN (Maoist Center) would be unified soon after the elections. Senior leader Khanal said this during a program organized by his party at Tansen on Monday. For now, the party was for a work alliance till elections and then got unified with the CPN (Maoist Center), he reiterated. He further argued that his party was close to the Maoist Center in terms of policy, principles and thoughts, which was paving way for the unification. He also underscored the need for unification among all communist parties for building a strong communist party in Nepal.

According to him, a task force was formed by the ruling alliance to decide on the seat sharing for the coming November 20 elections, which would give a final decision within some days.

Present five-party alliance would continue till the election, he said, reminding that the communist party was given nearly two-thirds of total votes in the last general election, but the unification among communist parties failed due to internal strife.