I think there are lot of people from the Left background who have emerged from the communist ideology to a democratic one, but they have not left the republican idealism. Now they don't fit in any of the Communist party (some wish UML would change their name so that they don't have to call their pals Comrades). and they have been anti-Congress from when they were babies, so they never can jump to the other side. These people don't have anyone to lead them, so mostly they vote the left, but they do not like themselves to be called commies. I don't know where Nepe falls, but I think he could lead the Republican Democrats of Nepal very well.