split, Rayamajhi labelled the dissidents as being under the influence of the CIA. The party led by Rayamajhi contested the 1981 Rastriya Panchayat election, launching over 50 candidates. None of them were elected though. Two years after the split, the Rayamajhi-led CPN held its fifth party congress. The congress, attended by 125 delegates from 32 districts, elected Rayamajhi as chairman of the party and Krishna Raj Burma as the new general secretary. Soon after the fifth congress, divisions reappeared inside the party. Again the participation in the Raj Sabha by Rayamajhi and accusations of his workings with the Panchayat system were the focal points of disagreements. In September 1983, Rayamajhi was expelled from the party at a national council meeting. Rayamajhi himself was absent at the meeting as well as a least 13 other members of 35-member national council of the party. Rayamajhi's followers regrouped and formed CPN. After the expulsion of Rayamajhi, the party became known as 'CPN (Burma)' (alternatively 'CPN (Varma)' or 'CPN (Verma)'). After the split, CPN (Burma) reoriented itself towards leftwing unity. The party developed good contacts with the Amatya-led CPN. During the 1990 Jana Andolan (People's Movement), CPN (Burma) formed part of the United Left Front. During the negotiations for starting the rewriting the constitution after the victory of the movement, CPN (Burma) was clearly amongst the most moderate elements inside ULF. When the interim government and the Constitution Recommendations Commission were formed, CPN (Burma) was left out. CPN (Burma) had 35 candidates in the 1991 parliamentary election. It got 16698 votes (0.23%), and no MPs. Burma himself contested the Saptari-5 constituency. Merger and dissolution The party had merged itself with the Manadhar and Amatya-led groups to form the Communist Party of Nepal (United) after the 1991 parliamentary election. Soon thereafter, however, Burma split from CPN(United) and re-established his own party. On 28 June 2001 CPN (Burma) merged into the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). Ideology CPN (Burma) upheld the line of 'National Democracy Revolution', a programmatic line presented by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 and adopted by the 1960 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow. The party saw Nepal as a semifeudal and semicolonial country. As of the 1980s, it considered workers, agricultural workers, poor and middle peasants, middle class and intellectuals as friendly classes, and feudalists and capitalists as class enemies. CPN (Burma) considered restoration of democracy, i.e. freedom of