KATHMANDU: The merger of the two communist parties of India has been ruled out by the politburu member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Harkishan Singh Surjeet.

Surjeet who is currently here to attend the national conference of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist) told PTI that the merger of the two communist parties of India was not in the agenda.

Neither the CPI nor the CPI-M was pressing for such a merger. But we have growing cooperation between the two parties through a co-ordination committee and we are working together. There has been more cooperation between us for the last one year. There was not a single subject on which we did not work unitedly he said.

Article extracted from this publication >> January 11, 1991