KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 13

Chairperson of the CPN-Unified Socialist Madhav Kumar Nepal has reiterated that the US government's Millennium Challenge Corporation compact could not be ratified in its present form.

Claiming that there remained some doubts regarding the MCC, the former prime minister said Nepal had adopted non-aligned policy as its foreign policy and the country should not become a battleground under any pretext.

Nepal was addressing an event organised here to welcome people who had defected from various other parties to join the CPN-Unified Socialist.

The party was actively working for the welfare of people and society and advancing towards socialism, he maintained.

Claiming that the coalition parties in the incumbent government had time and again discussed continuation of the alliance until the three levels of elections, he directed party leaders and cadres to unite against regressive forces and confidently join their duty.

Meanwhile, sister organisations of the CPN-Unified Socialist today staged nationwide protests demanding amendment to the MCC agreement for the sake of national interest. 'The project is not in the interest of the nation. So we demanded that it should not go ahead,' said Jagannath Khatiwada, chief of the party publicity department.

A version of this article appears in the print on February 14, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.