Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), was a minor communist party in Nepal. The party was as founded in 1981 by Krishna Das Shrestha. Initially it was known as the Nepal Marxist-Leninist Party. Shrestha had broken away from the Bagmati District Committee (which functioned semiautnomously) of the Communist Party of Nepal in 1969.Rawal, Bhim Bahadur. Nepalma samyabadi andolan: udbhab ra vikas. Kathmandu: Pairavi Prakashan. Chart nr. 1.

Krishna Das Shrestha was the party president.

During the 1990 popular uprising against the monarchy, the group formed part of the radical United National People's Movement.

In 1991 the party was one of the organizations that founded the Samyukta Jana Morcha,Upreti, B.C.. The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Nature, Growth and Impact. In South Asian Survey 13:1 (2006), page 37

CPN(MLM) took part in the Joint People's Agitation Committee, which had called for a general strike on April 6, 1992. Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the human rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing.Hoftun, Martin, William Raeper and John Whelpton. People, politics and ideology: Democracy and Social Change in...
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