The top leaders of the communist parties at a programme organized by the Pushpalal Friendship Centre on the 43rd Pushpalal Memorial Day in Kathmandu on July 23 have univocally called for unification among all communist political parties in the country, reports The Rising Nepal. Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal asserted that all communist political parties should be united to safeguard the political movement in the country. The former Prime Minister opined, “We can forge work alliance if unification is not possible among all communist political parties." Likewise, standing committee member of CPN-Maoist Centre Ganesh Shah echoed with Nepal and called for work alliance among the political parties. Similarly, CPN-Revolutionary Maoist General Secretary Mohan Baidya observed the estrangement among the communists in the country was largely due to personal reasons rather than ideological differences. Rastriya Janamorcha Chairperson Chitra Bahadur KC worried that the communists failed to make the best use of the trust and confidence entrusted on them by the citizens of Nepal. He ruled that the communist political parties who, according to him, could not bring about good changes in the lives of public despite holding the reign of the leadership time and again. CPN (Unified) Chairperson Chandra Dev Joshi hinted at the possibility of consolidation of the communist movement provided that the communists reflect on their weakness and tend to correct their flaws.