Progressive Democratic Party Faces Split Amid Ideological Differences

Kathmandu. The Progressive Democratic Party (PrLoPa) is heading towards a split following serious ideological and theoretical differences. The PrLoPa Chairman Council had called an expanded meeting of the Central Committee on April 11 and 12 to review the unexpected defeat in last year's February elections.

At the meeting, after Chairman of the Council, Santosh Pariyar, presented a document on the new era's new 'Socialist Democracy', the faction of patron Baburam Bhattarai, i.e., the former Naya Shakti group, expressed dissatisfaction. The Bhattarai group boycotted the meeting, stating that the political document presented by Chairman Santosh Pariyar was not even worthy of discussion. However, the Bhattarai group became further agitated after the report was circulated as a decision.