Nov 01, Kathmandu - Jhalanath Khanal, a respected leader of the CPN-UML, has commented on UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli's call to return home.

Khanal, who had attended a separate gathering of his party held in Sukedhara, was questioned by a journalist about Oli's call.

Oli had called on those who had left the party on Friday evening after the Unified Socialists split to return home.

Responding to a question from a journalist about Oli's call, Khanal jokingly said, "None of us are in the forest. We are at home."

Khanal said that in order to return home, the doors should be opened properly and the living quarters should be made good.

Khanal took Oli's call to return to the UML positively and put forward 4 conditions for that.

He said this while pointing to those conditions. "The doors should be opened properly. The living quarters should be made good. If that is done, what is the problem with returning?", he said.

Khanal was dissatisfied after the party decided to unite with the Maoist Center. He claimed that communist unity has been fragmented from time to time and fragmented to become whole.

"Sometimes, after fragmentation, it becomes whole. This is fragmentation to become whole. Reorganization, formation, that is a process", Khanal said. "We have held today's discussion to discuss. This discussion is to bring the communist movement to broad unity".