KATHMANDU: Top-notch leaders including Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have handed over a written letter to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli urging the latter to call a Secretariat meeting of the party.

The leaders who reached Baluwatar this afternoon submitted a two-page-long memorandum to Prime Minister Oli demanding the party committee meetings at the earliest, said Prime Minister’s Press Advisor Surya Thapa.

Thapa further said the Prime Minister assured the leaders that he would soon call the meeting following necessary consultations.

“The meetings of all the party committees should be convened. The committees have been formed to this end. I will duly call the meetings following consultations,” Thapa quoted the Prime Minister as saying.

Chairman Dahal, senior leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhala Nath Khanal, Vice-Chairman Bamdev Gautam, and Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha had reached Baluwatar.

It is learnt that top NCP leaders, including Dahal had held talks at the NCP central party headquarters in Dhumbarahi before leaving for Baluwatar.

Earlier, an informal meeting held at Dhumbarahi on Friday had decided to urge Oli to call a Secretariat meeting of the party.

Dahal-Nepal faction is dissatisfied with Oli over the government’s recommendation of ambassadors, cabinet reformation, the no-confidence motion against the chief minister of Karnali Pradesh, and holding a meeting with the chief of Research and Analysis Wing, (RAW), the foreign Intelligence agency of India.