Kathmandu, June 30 -- Co-chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party, KP Sharma Oli, has said that "people's multiparty democracy" is still relevant, in what appeared to be his bid to quell concerns about the unified party's political line.

Appearing together with another co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a function organised to mark the 68th birth anniversary of the late leader Madan Bhandari, who propounded "people's multiparty democracy", at City Hall on Saturday, Oli said that's the line which complements current aspiration of socialism.

Oli's remarks come at a time when leaders within the ruling party are debating over party ideology, with former Maoists expressing reluctance to accept people's multiparty democracy and adopt a new an...