On 19 June 2012 , a dissident group around Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) ( UCPN-M ) vice-president Mohan Baidya ( alias '' Kiran '' ) announced the formation of a new party : '' ' Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist ' '' or Nepal Communist Party ( Maoist ) or '' ' CPN-M ' '' . Baidya said the UCPN-M was destroying the achievement of the " People 's War " and he announced a vertical split . The party is registered as SN 6 with the Election Commission of Nepal and has as election symbol the " Hammer and Sickle inside a circle . " The announcement of the split from the UCPN-M and formation of the new outfit came at the end of the three-day national gathering of the followers in Kathmandu . The dissident party decided to split as they thought it 's not fit to be associated with the mother party which is '' filled with opportunists '' . Echoing Prachanda 's group in its early years , it enforced many a banda , yet unlike its predecessor , it capitalized on popular anti-India sentiment and claimed the mother party gives away too much sovereignty to India . CPN-M enforced trade stoppage with India confiscated Hindi popular music and movies . This agitation had continued numerous times until the April 2015 Nepal earthquake interrupted politics with its destruction
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
Communist Party of Nepal—Maoist