Names of other office bearers and central committee members, however, were not disclosed at the announcement ceremony held this afternoon after hours-long unity convention held this morning.

It has been learned that the unified party would have a 699-member central committee.

Earlier, on Saturday, the parties had signed an 13-point base for unification.

Leaders including Ram Bahadur Thapa of the Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Revolutionary Maoist had split the party on the same day in order to unify after Baidya did not agree on the unification bid.