NCP Standing Committee to discuss proposals by Chairmen

KATHMANDU: The Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) held this afternoon decided to take the separate political documents in the party’s Standing Committee (SC) meeting submitted by two chairmen meant for troubleshooting the intraparty disputes.

Both the proposals would be submitted to the party’s SC meeting to be held at 1:00 pm on December 6 as decided by today’s secretariat meeting held in the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar.

Emerging from the meeting, NCP Spokesperson Narayankaji Shrestha said that discussions would be held in the SC meeting to resolve the intraparty disputes.

The NCP’s top leadership is still divided over the formal discussions on the written response presented by PM and Chairperson KP Sharma Oli at the meeting on November 28 and the written paper presented by another Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ at the meeting on November 13.

It should be noted that PM Oli who had snubbed the earlier meeting was present during today’s meeting.

In the political proposal submitted in the Secretariat meeting on November 13, Prachanda had stated that Prime Minister Oli has to ‘sacrifice for the party and the country’.

Dahal in his political dossier has stated that the almost two-thirds majority government could not live up to the expectations of the people, failed to control corruption, irregularities, coronavirus pandemic, and maintain good governance.

Similarly, Oli in his proposal has pointed out Prachanda’s checkered past life since the insurgency and leveled various accusations against him.

On November 13, Prachanda had tabled a 19-long political proposal, pointing out various issues on Prime Minister Oli at the Secretariat meeting.

After 10 days in the Secretariat meeting held on November 28, Oli had presented a 38-long page political dossier in response to Dahal’s proposal.

In recent months, the ruling NCP has witnessed an intra-party dispute over the appointment of ambassadors, a Cabinet reshuffle, a dispute in Karnali Province, a vendetta among party cadres in Tarai districts, RAW Chief’s meeting with PM Oli.