Only a year after splitting, communist leaders have proposed unity on July 16, reports My Republica. On May 17, 2018, the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-Maoist Center) merged to form the CPN. Three years after that, on 7 March 2021, after the Supreme Court ordered both the parties to stay separate, the leaders of CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center, which are separate parties, used the same platform on July 16 to propose party unity or a left alliance in the upcoming elections. In a program organized by Nepal-China Friendship Society in Kathmandu on July 16, Maoist leader Narayankaji Shrestha proposed harmony and party unity to CPI-UML President KP Sharma Oli in the federal and provincial elections.