KATHMANDU: CPN-UML Politburo member and former Minister for Communication Gokul Baskota has criticized recent efforts at left unity, calling them nonsense after the split.
His remarks came after the CPN (Unified Socialist) led by Madhav Kumar Nepal decided to merge with the CPN (Maoist Center).
Following the unification move, UML Chair KP Sharma Oli had urged those who left the party to return, in what appeared to be a renewed call for broader left consolidation.
Taking to social media, Baskota wrote, “Remembering the need for unity only after a split is nonsense. But Nepal’s leftists seem cursed by the same tendency, like the Indian and Pacific oceans that merge yet never truly blend.”
He further said that the failure of such unity stems from pressure of depth and heat of leadership, suggesting that personal ambition and power struggles prevent genuine left consolidation.
Mocking Nepal’s return to unification talks, Baskota added, “Unity is better than division, but don’t be like a fish trapped in a doorframe, whether another eats it or makes soup out of it, it’s gone all the same.”
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