The members of the negotiating team formed by the United Socialist Party are Beduram Bhusal, Gangalal Tuladhar, Prakash Jwala and Vijay Paudel respectively.
5 January, Kathmandu. The CPN United Socialists have awakened the working group saying that they will lead for the unity of the left.
The meeting of the Central Secretariat of the United Samajwadi held on Thursday formed a working group under the leadership of General Secretary Beduram Bhusal. The Politburo meeting of the United Socialist Party, which lasted for two days on Monday and Tuesday, gave the central secretariat the task of taking the initiative to ‘bring the left-wing public opinion together’.
According to that, the deputy general secretaries Gangalal Tuladhar, Prakash Jwala and Vijay Poudel are members of the working group. Earlier also, a similar task force was formed under the leadership of Bhusal.
Again the slogan of unity
The United Socialist Party, which broke away from the UML with 20 percent power, did not even become a national party after the general election. Due to the alliance of five parties including the Nepali Congress, it won 10 seats directly, but could not cut the threshold of 3 percent proportionally. The United Socialist Party, the fourth party in the Parliament last time, has now fallen to the seventh place.
On top of that, the alliance led by the Nepali Congress collapsed and the new equation of the UML and the Maoists became a unified socialist. Also, the UML has tried to attract the leaders and workers of the United Socialist Party. To prevent this and show presence in national politics, the United Socialist Party has again raised the slogan of left unity.
‘Our policy is to get along as much as possible with like-minded people,’ says Jhalnath Khanal, the leader of the United Socialist Party, ‘We try to gather as much power as possible.’
In the recently concluded meeting of the Standing Committee, Politburo and Central Committee of the Integrated Socialists, the leaders also suggested that they can build their own power and for that they should work hard for the next five years. According to that, Beduram Bhusal, General Secretary and Coordinator of the working group, says that the policy of uniting those who agree with each other and working together with those who disagree has been adopted. “Whoever has a basis for unity, has unity,” he said.
Who can be united with whom?
The Janata Samajwadi Party is also under pressure like the United Socialists. Therefore, the agenda of unity has become in both parties. According to Jagannath Khatiwada, head of the propaganda department of the United Socialist Party, Jaspa is considered to be ‘a force with character that can become progressive and left-wing’.
On December 15, JSP president Upendra Yadav met Jhalnath Khanal of the United Socialist Party and discussed about party unity. Jasapa has formed a committee under the leadership of leader Rajendra Shrestha for unity with like-minded parties and groups.
However, Bhusal, general secretary and working group coordinator of the United Socialist Party, says that he will unite only with the communist forces. Having prepared three bases for unity, he said, ‘The party that unites us should be a communist party, Marxism-Lelinism should be considered as a guiding principle and it should have a socialist course of action.’
Jasapa has set a socialist course of action, but there is doubt that it is ready to become a communist.
The United Samajwadi Party wants to bring Ghanshyam Bhusal, who was abandoned by the UML before the elections, into the party. The top leaders of the United Socialist Party are saying that he will join the party soon. Bhusal, on the other hand, has not decided to join the integrated socialists.
Before the elections, there was an agreement between the Maoist Center and the United Socialists to form a unity coordination committee. According to Bhusal, General Secretary of the United Socialist Party, there will be unity efforts with the Maoist Center as well. They say, ‘They had to want for that.’
