KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Nepal Communist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal are holding a meeting in a bid to patch up their differences on some thorny issues in the party.
According to sources, the heavyweights are holding a meeting at Baluwatar which began at 9 am today.
Standing Committee member Subas Nembang said Prime Minister Oli and Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal are discussing various options to resolve the intra-party feud.
Oli and Dahal also held a meeting yesterday in an effort to resolve the differences but ended inconclusively. Aside from Oli and Dahal, senior Jhala Nath Khanal and SC member Suba Nembang were in the meeting.
It is learnt that Oli has been a bit flexible of late and is likely to agree to hand over premiership to Dahal to hold general elections by holding an early general convention of the party. But Dahal has not budged from his stance of ‘one man one post’ in the party.
On the other hand senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal is still sticking to his demand that Oli has to resign from the post of the prime minister.
Oli’s morale has been high after he was able to bring Secretariat members Bam Dev Gautam and Ram Bahadur Thapa into his confidence, recently.