Nepal Workers Peasants Party is a communist

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. The party president is Narayan Man Bijukchhe

Narayan Man Bijukchhe

Narayan Man Bijukchhe is a Nepalese politician. Bijukchhe is the president of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party.Bijukchhe was born in Sukuldhoka, Nepal. He became a communist sympathizer after seeing the relief work of Communist Party of Nepal cadres during floods in Rautahat around 1954...

 alias 'Comrade Rohit'. NWPP has a strong base in the Bhaktapur

Bhaktapur

Bhaktapur , also Bhadgaon or Khwopa is an ancient Newar town in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It is located in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone...

 area, but limited presence otherwise. Rohit and Sunil Prajapati are Members of Parliament of the party.

History

With a strong hold of Marxism, Leninism and Mao Tse tung thought, Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party (NWPP) was founded on the firm base of peasants' movement in Nepal on January 23, 1975. The then Nepal Communist Party was not ready to accept the downfall of Russian revisionism into social imperialism. It was hesitating to launch peasant movements in Nepal. So, NWPP was founded in order to fight for the working class people in Nepal as well as the whole world.

The party was founded in the late 1970s, as the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Organisation (नेपाल मजदुर किसान संगठन). NPWO united Rohit's group (Rohit had broken away from the Communist Party of Nepal (Pushpa Lal)

Communist Party of Nepal (Pushpa Lal)

Communist Party of Nepal , a communist splinter group led by Pushpa Lal Shestra. The party emerged in 1968, as Pushpa Lal organized a separate party congress in Gorakhpur, India...

 in protest over Pushpa Lal Shrestha

Pushpa Lal Shrestha

Pushpa Lal Shrestha was the founding general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal as well as the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal ....

's support for India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n intervention in East Pakistan

East Pakistan

East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...

), the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal

Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal

The Communist Unity Contact Forum Nepal was a Nepalese communist organisation. It was founded in July 1974 by communists who had developed differences with the Communist Party of Nepal . The group was based in western Nepal and in exile in India. The organisation published Rato Jhanda...

 and the Kisan Samiti. The organ of NWPO was Majdur-Kisan. In 1976 the Western Regional Committee published Rato Jhanda.

In 1981 NWPO suffered a severe split, and two separate NWPOs came into existence. One NWPO led by Rohit (which later took the name NWPP) and one NWPO led by Hareram Sharma

Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)

Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation was a communist group in Nepal, led by Hareram Sharma. It was one of the two separate NWPOs that emerged out of the original NWPO...

. The current party is a continuation of Rohit's NWPO.

Rohit's NWPO formed part of the United Left Front

United Left Front (Nepal) (1990)

United Left Front, an alliance of communist parties who opposed the authocratic regime in Nepal. ULF was formed in 1990. It conducted joint movement together with the Nepali Congress...

 and had taken part in the 1990 Jana Andolan uprising. It took part in the formation of the Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, but left just ahead of the 1991 election

Nepalese legislative elections, 1991

Elections to the Pratinidhi Sabha were held on May 12, 1991. These were the first multiparty elections following the uprising against monarchic autocracy in 1990.Electoral participation was 61.7%....

. The group changed its name to the Nepal Workers Peasants Party, and contested the election separately. It launched 30 candidates, out of whom two were elected. The party got 91335 votes (1.25%).

Ahead of the 1992 elections to local bodies NWPP took part in forming a front together with the Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist)

Communist Party of Nepal , 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...

, Communist Party of Nepal (15 September 1949)

Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) (1991)

Communist Party of Nepal was a Nepalese political party. It was formed on November 1, 1991 by a group of former leaders of the original Communist Party of Nepal that had been expelled from the Communist Party of Nepal...

 and Nepal Communist League

Nepal Communist League

Nepal Communist League was a communist organisation in Nepal. NCL was led by Shambhuram Shrestha. Shrestha, who had been a central secretariat member of the original Communist Party of Nepal, broke away from Man Mohan Adhikari's faction in the mid-1970s....

.

Current situation

In the parliamentary election held on 3 and 16 May 1999, the party won 0.6 % of the popular vote and 1 out of 205 seats.

NWPP was active in the protest movements against undemocratic regression in Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

 and is a member of the Seven Party Alliance

Seven Party Alliance

The Seven Party Alliance was a coalition of seven Nepali political parties seeking to end autocratic rule in the country. They spearheaded the Loktantra Andolan.The alliance was made up of the following parties:* Nepali Congress...

 which spearheaded the 2006 Loktantra Andolan. After the restoration of democratic system, the party decided not to join the government (which it was invited to do), but stayed in the Seven Party Alliance (later converted into the Eight Party Alliance). When the interim legislature

Interim legislature of Nepal

On January 15, 2007 the Pratinidhi Sabha, the legislature of Nepal, was dissolved and a new Interim legislature was formed. The old parliament was elected in 1999...

 was formed in January 2007, Rohit was joined by three nominated MPs: Lila Nyaichai (Bhaktapur), Sunil Prajapati

Sunil Prajapati

Sunil Prajapati is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepal Workers Peasants Party.In the 1999 parliamentary election Prajapati contested the Bhaktapur-2 seat. He finished second with 13432 votes....

 (Bhaktapur), Jagya Bahadur Shahi

Jagya Bahadur Shahi

Jagya Bahadur Shahi is a Nepalese politician from Dailekh, belonging to the Nepal Workers Peasants Party. Shahi is the chairman of the NWPP youth wing, the Nepal Revolutionary Youth Union....

 (Dailekh) and Nawaraj Koirala (Kalikot).{name list of mp

Mass Organizations

• Nepal Revolutionary Youths' Union
• Nepal Revolutionary Students' Union
  Nepal Revolutionary Students' Union
  Nepal Revolutionary Students Union is the student wing of the Nepal Workers Peasants Party. The president of NRSU is Rabindra Jyakhwo, and the secretary is Niraj Lawaju.from 9th national conference butwal...
  
  
• Nepal Revolutionary Women's Union
• Nepal Revolutionary Teachers' Union
• Nepal Revolutionary Peasants' Union
• Students' welfare committee
• Nepal Revolutionary Workers' Union
• Nepal Revolutionary Culturals' Union