September 10, 2025

CPI Expresses Concern over the Situation in Nepal, 

Calls for Unity of Progressive Forces and Defence of Democracy

The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (10th September, 2025) the following statement: 

 The Communist Party of India expresses deep concern over the unfolding situation in Nepal, which is fast slipping into a state of lawlessness. There is a discernible anger among the people, particularly the GenZ youth, over issues of suppression of freedom of expression, restrictions on social media platforms, and corruption. This anger must be acknowledged. However, the torching of the Parliament building, the residences of the President and senior ministers, the killing of the wife of a former Prime Minister, and violent attacks on public property and communist and other political parties’ offices in the valley are a matter of grave concern. Such developments point to the protests turning berserk, going beyond democratic methods of struggle, and risk undermining the very causes they claim to uphold. 

 The CPI strongly condemns the conduct of the police administration in Kathmandu and adjoining cities, whose firing on protesting youth killed many and added fuel to the fire, only to surrender before the same youth the next day. Such actions raise serious suspicions of a larger ploy by forces who do not wish to see a democratic Nepal prospering under its hard-won secular and democratic constitution—an achievement of the people’s movement against monarchy in which communists played the leading role. At the same time, the CPI underlines that the divisions among communists in Nepal have also contributed to this crisis. The people of Nepal have repeatedly given their mandate in favour of the communists. But this mandate has been undermined by compromises with parties driven by narrow agendas, resulting in dilution of communist principles, weak governance, and corruption, disappointing the people and contributing to the present crisis. 

 The CPI cautions that unless the communists in Nepal rethink their path and restore principled unity, they risk undoing the legacy of decades of people’s struggles and mobilisation. At the same time, the Party expresses its full support and solidarity with the people of Nepal and the communists of Nepal, and hopes that the situation returns to peace and normalcy at the earliest. The CPI also underlines the need for vigilance by all democratic and secular forces, since meddling in the internal affairs of South Asian countries is not new to imperialist interests. The genuine anger of Nepal’s youth should not be diverted towards right-wing forces or calls for a return to monarchy, which would undo the democratic and secular progress made by the people of Nepal.

Roykutty 

Office Secretary