The Communist Party of Nepal is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

led by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplab). It was formed from a split in the

Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) The Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) ( ne, नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (क्रान्तिकारी माओवादी)), abbreviated CPN (RM), is a communist party in Nepal. It w ...

in 2014.

History

Echoing the 2012 split of Kiran's faction going by the name

, Netra Bikram Chand's faction split from it and claimed: "The Maoist revolt had grossly perverted by the time it arrived in Kathmandu from Rolpa. It is not possible to unite with the party that has strayed from the Maoist ideology." Biplab's party has its core strength in the western parts of the country, especially the remote Far-Western Development Region, which gets regularly cut off from the rest of the nation due to monsoon and snowfall for months on end, and therefore is at particular risk for famines and malnutrition.

Border dispute protest

Despite support for anti-India efforts during the

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, the Kathmandu's government and Chand's party have come to loggersheads as Biplab's party has been marginalized from media, additionally having no official parliamentary presence. The party cadres have been torching cell phones towers of

Ncell Ncell Axiata Limited (previously Ncell Private Limited) ( ne, एनसेल आजियाटा) is a mobile service provider from Nepal. Ncell is Nepal's second largest telecommunications company, after Nepal Telecom. The company was found ...

knocking them out of service in

Dang Deukhuri District Dang District ( ne, दाङ जिल्ला, ) is the district of Lumbini Province located in the Inner Terai of midwestern Nepal. Deukhuri valley of the district is the capital of the province and is the second largest valley of Asia su ...

. in addition to shutting down commercial traffic. Four strikes (banda) have been enforced by the party since its foundation, as of June 2016. The party had initially called a peaceful protest to mark opposition to the

Lipulekh Pass Lipulekh () is a Himalayan pass in Kalapani territory is on the border of India, Nepal and China. It is one of the routes for the pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Mansarovar in Tibet, China. Tourism This pass links the Byans valley of Uttarakh ...

, a bilateral India-China deal that did not include Nepal, over territory that Nepal claims is theirs, but was ignored.

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