Formation Madhav Kumar Nepal, founder of the CPN (Unified Socialist) President
Bidya Devi Bhandari, on the recommendation of
the council of ministers issued second amendment on political parties related act on 18 August 2021 relaxing the requirements to split parties with 20 percent or more members of the Parliamentary Party and the Central Committee of the political party. This same amendment opened the way to formalize the splits caused due to the
dispute between two factions of
Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal and
CPN(UML) respectively. The CPN(UML) faction led by
Madhav Kumar Nepal and
Jhala Nath Khanal which had a long dispute with CPN(UML) chairman
KP Sharma Oli had applied to register their party by the name
CPN (Unified Socialist) with the
Election Commission. However, the Election Commission requested him not to register under a preregistered name by including some adjectives. , senior leader of the CPN (Unified Socialist) At the time of the launch of the party, leaders claimed to have 31 members in the two national houses of parliament including 23 from
House of Representatives and eight from
National Assembly. However, many politicians of the mother party CPN(UML) had not finalised their decision yet including party less leader
Bam Dev Gautam. Madhav Kumar Nepal was announced to act as the coordinator of the party. The decision of Madhav Kumar Nepal to form a new party was however met with some criticism from within his own faction. The second generation leaders close to him boycotted the decision except party secretary
Jeevan Ram Shrestha and
Ram Kumari Jhakri. Leaders including
Ghanashyam Bhusal and
Yogesh Bhattarai sided with KP Sharma Oli for party unity. This faction included leaders like Yubaraj Gyawali,
Astalaxmi Shakya,
Bhim Bahadur Rawal,
Ghanashyam Bhusal,
Gokarna Bista,
Bhim Acharya,
Yogesh Bhattarai and standing committee members including
Surendra Pandey,
Raghuji Pant and
Amrit Kumar Bohara. They even attended the standing committee meeting of the 8th Bhadra which called upon Nepal faction for party unity for a final time and instructed
CPN (UML) to fulfill their 10 points demand. Howeven the 10 point demand was never followed. Later Bhim Bahadur Rawal and Ghanashyam Bhusal were ditched and side lined from the party after
10th general convention of former party for not following party supremo Oli. On the same day (8th Bhadra), Madhav Kumar Nepal arranged a meeting where he presented the party's doctrine and announced that
People's Multiparty Democracy would be their guiding philosophy.
Party Authentication Following the registration, the
Election Commission had summoned CPN (Unified Socialist) on 9th Bhadra for authentication. As per the new provision the party had to present signatures 20% of either the central committee or the parliamentary party to authenticate the registration. The party was able to meet the threshold with 55 out of 205 members of the central committee and 9 out of 33 of the
National Assembly and 24 out of 121 of
House of Representatives. Among these members,
Pradeep Nepal, a central committee member who was earlier close to
Oli, was present during signature session. The signature of
Jhala Nath Khanal who signed it from Delhi was counted although the Election Commission had rejected his previous request to accept such signatures as he had been in Delhi for his kidney transplant. However, the Election Commission rejected to accept the signatures of
Som Prasad Pandey,
Jibaraj Ashrit,
Tulsa Thapa and Sharada Devi Bhatta as they had not signed the earlier application for party registration. Letter a petition was filed at
Supreme Court which allowed them to join the new party.
Organization development and first local election The party election just eight months after the party formation. Even though the period of organization development was short, party caders got elected unopposed as chairperson of
Kaike and
Chharka Tangsong rural municipalities of Dolpa district which remained the highest won unopposed by any party. While the party went to election without alliance in
Madhesh Province, the party won six local levels out of which four were from
Rautahat, the home district of party chair
Madhav Kumar Nepal. The party gave close contest to
Nepali Congress. Here, the party won five municipalities and one rural municipality. The party won the mayoralty of
Pokhara Metropolitan city and
Hetauda Sub-metropolitan city and defeated the
CPN (UML). Although the party obtained support of alliance in numerous places, it was able to win only twenty local levels signing that the party organization had still not developed as expected. As a whole, the party won 20 heads, 24 deputy heads, 190 ward chairs and 753 ward members with a total of 986 seats throughout the country. The party went most successful in
Madhesh Province where it bagged 6 heads, 5 deputy heads, 80 ward chairs and 310 ward members with a total of 401 seats and that too without any pre electoral alliance contributing to 40% of total national wins. == Party merger and integration ==