Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya)

Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya)

नेपाल कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (आमात्य)
Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya) नेपाल कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (आमात्य)
Founder	Far-left
	Politics of Nepal; Political parties; Elections;

The Communist Party of Nepal, also referred to as the Communist Party of Nepal (Amatya), was a communist party in Nepal. It emerged from a split in the original Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) in 1962. The CPN had been ravaged by internal conflicts due to the Sino-Soviet split and differences of how to relate to political changes in the country.

History

In April 1962, the radical sector of the Communist Party of Nepal convened a 3rd party convention in

Communist Party of Nepal.^[2]

Sino-Soviet split, 1963–1968

Between Amatya and Pushpa Lal, there were political differences. Amatya favoured the idea of

national democracy, whereas Pushpa Lal advocated the line of people's democracy. From 1963 onwards, the two worked separately.^[2]

As a result of the

Gorakhpur, India. Pushpa Lal condemned the Soviet line in the convention and supported the line advocated by the Communist Party of China as the correct line of the global communist movement. This led to the founding of a separate party, with Pushpa Lal as general secretary. The majority of the party leadership followed Pushpa Lal in joining his splinter group.^[1] This party became known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Pushpa Lal).^[2]

Further splits

In 1971, a group of CPN leaders (

Manmohan Adhikari, Shambhu Ram, and Mohan Bikram Singh) were released from jail. They formed the Central Nucleus, which tried to unify with Pushpa Lal's group. That unity proved impossible and the Central Nucleus gave way to new parties. Adhikari formed his own CPN, the Communist Party of Nepal (Manmohan). This party developed close relations to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Singh's group became known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention)

.

The Amatya-led party was reduced to become one of many clandestine communist factions in Nepal, and it was readily outgrown by several of its splinter groups. The party was generally identified as part of the pro-Soviet Union stream within the Nepalese communist movement, although it maintained some independence towards Moscow.

End of Panchayat and dissolution, 1989–1994

In 1989, the party took part in the formation of the

United Left Front, to struggle against the autocratic regime. Following the overthrow of the regime and the democratic opening, the party contested the 1991 Nepalese general election

. The party put up 14 candidates, who together mustered 4846 votes. None of the candidates of the party were elected.

Soon after the 1991 general election, the party had merged itself with two other groups to form the

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

.