KATHMANDU: The Nepali Communist Party and the Nepal Communist Party, led by Uma Bhujel, have agreed to unite. The two sides signed a 10 points agreement and decided to move the unity process forward.

The agreement was reached on Tuesday, Kartik 17. The united party will be called the Nepali Communist Party and its election symbol will be the five pointed star.

Uma Bhujel, general secretary of the Nepal Communist Party, signed for her side. Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, coordinator and Madhav Kumar Nepal, co-coordinator, signed for the Nepali Communist Party.

Marxism Leninism will be the party’s guiding principle. Its program for the Nepali revolution will be scientific socialism with Nepali characteristics.

The agreement lists the party’s immediate goals as protecting the federal democratic republic and national independence, ensuring good governance and social justice and bringing economic prosperity and change to lay the base for socialism.

The movement will be mainly peaceful but all forms of struggle can be used when needed. The streets, parliament and government will all be treated as fronts of the movement.

A unity National General Convention will be held after the coming local elections. Until then, the central committee, central working committee, central secretariat, central working coordination committee and other central bodies will be merged by agreement.

Party committees and mass organizations at all levels are to be merged by the end of Mangsir. Committees will run according to the party’s rules and the principle of democratic centralism.

Differences on ideas and issues will be discussed continuously and settled at the convention.