Nepali Prime Minister and Maoist Supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda met with Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) General Secretary Jhalanath Khanal on how to improve the two-party relations getting worsened due to their youth cadres’ frequent confrontations at local levels.
The UML, a partner in the Maoist-led coalition government, has sought options for aligning with monarchist and other rightist forces with a view to restoring their position undermined heavily by the 10-April 2008 Constituent Assembly (CA) poll through which the Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPNM) emerged as the largest political party in Nepal.
Immediately after the loss that the UML bore following the CA poll, it formed a fighting squad called Youth Force stating that its combat force could make the party as big as the Maoists’ party.