Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

The party was formed in 1994 with the same name as its parent party Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre); it was renamed as the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in 1996. After the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre–Masal) and its electoral front, Janamorcha Nepal, merged with the party in 2009, the unified party came to be known as the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The party emerged in its current state in 2016 following the unification of various splinter groups with the party.