Shrestha, who had been a central secretariat member of the original Communist Party of Nepal, broke away from Man Mohan Adhikari's faction in the mid-1970s.
[1] During the Jana Andolan, the 1990 popular uprising against the monarchy, the group formed part of the radical United National People's Movement.
[2] NCL took part in the Joint People's Agitation Committee, which had called for a general strike on April 6, 1992.
Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the human rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing.
[4] The group merged into the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) during the 1990s.