A youth leader close to former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on June 23 registered a new political party, reports Republica. The youth leader Jiwan Rai has received registration certificate of the new party from the Election Commission (EC). A former leader of All Nepal National Free Students Union, the student wing of Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML), Rai has registered a new political party called Communist Party of Nepal-United (CPN-United). The aim of the new political party is said to unite all fringe leftist parties in the country. Rai had filed an application at the EC to register a new political party on May 20 when the intra-party rift between CPN-UML Chairman K P Sharma Oli and senior leader Nepal had reached at its peak. The political party has received pen as its election symbol. The new political party has a 25-member central working committee. While Kalpana Gurung is Vice Chairperson, Binod Khulal is General Secretary of the party. Similarly, Ain Bikram Kunwar and Sushil Khanal are Secretary and Treasurer of the party, respectively.