KATHMANDU: Thirty lawmakers and 54 central committee members of CPN-UML have verified their names as newly formed CPN-Unified Socialist Party members at Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday.

EC Wednesday verified the new party led by Madhav Kumar Nepal after registering an application with the Election Commission.

According to lawmaker Parbati Bisunkhe, 30 lawmakers from both the National Assembly and the House of Representatives and 54 central committee members of CPN-UML showed themselves at the EC to verify themselves as the members of Nepal-led Unified Socialist party.

As per the newly amended Acts relating to the Political Parties 2017, the new party should comprise 20 percent lawmakers or the central committee members of the party of origin.

Although the number of lawmakers identified in the EC is not enough for the valid split of the party, Nepal’s new party got enough support from the central committee members as out of required 41 members 54 verified as the members of the newly formed party.

The EC had earlier summoned the Madhav Nepal-led CPN-Unified (Socialist) and the Mahanta Thakur-led Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) for identification.

The CPN-UML has formally split after the ordinance on political parties was issued with the support of 20 percent in the parliamentary parties and the Central Committee.

Leader Nepal had submitted the names of 58 members of the UML’s 203-member central committee to the EC. However, as the party registration application was not signed, the identities of the seven candidates could not be ascertained.