The Communist Party of Nepal (Pushpa Lal) was a communist splinter group led by Pushpa Lal Shrestha. The party emerged in 1968, as Pushpa Lal organized a separate party congress in Gorakhpur, India.
History
After the 1962 convention of the radical communist sector, which constituted the separate Communist Party of Nepal, Pushpa Lal was supposed to have shared the leadership of the party together with Tulsi Lal Amatya. However, the cooperation between the two had broken down, and a large section of the party cadres followed Pushpa Lal in forming a new party. For a few years, Pushpa Lal's party was the major communist group in Nepal. The party was politically close to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). Pushpa Lal's party upheld the line of people's democracy. The organ of Pushpa Lal's party was Naya Janvad and the party headquarters were established in Varanasi, India. Pushpa Lal called for unity in action together with the Nepali Congress against the royal regime.