UML and Nepal Family Party Announce Election Alliance

Kathmandu. The CPN UML and the Nepal Family Party have agreed to form an election alliance. UML chair KP Sharma Oli and Nepal Family Party founder Ek Nath Dhakal signed a four point agreement yesterday.

The agreement says the two parties will work together for nationalism, development, democracy, peace, and the constitution. They will continue their past cooperation in the upcoming House of Representatives election. Under the first point, the Nepal Family Party will support candidates nominated by the CPN UML. The UML has agreed to help ensure representation of the Family Party in the federal parliament and provincial assemblies at an appropriate time.

The second point states that the Nepal Family Party will remain an independent political party outside parliament, but its members inside parliament will join the UML parliamentary party. Any issues not mentioned in the agreement will be resolved through mutual discussion.

Earlier, the UML had made Dhakal a proportional representation member of parliament, which was criticized within the party. Despite this, Oli has again reached an agreement with him. Dhakal, who runs the Unification Church in Nepal, is linked to the controversial Holy Wine incident, in which foreign religious leaders were invited and Nepali politicians were made to drink what was called holy wine.