KATHMANDU, AUGUST 27

The CPN (Maoist Centre) has formed an ICT (information and communication technology) forum.

Maoist Centre Chair and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal inaugurated the forum by unveiling its statute pressing a remote amid a function here today at the party office in Perisdanda.

The forum aims to establish the party among the people with positive work, he said. 'This is an era of information technology. We must understand the importance of it. Information technology has become an integral part to make a political party successful.'

Saying that the forum was created as per the decision of the party central committee meeting lately, he directed its expansion to the grassroots.

'The forum helps publicise and bring party's ideology, policies and work among people,' said the Maoist Centre chair directing the newly formed forum to help make the party's three-month campaign a success through the use of information technology.

Others present on the occasion were party vice chairperson and spokesperson Agni Sapkota, the sister organisation in-charge Pampha Bhusal, and leader and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma.