KATHMANDU: A day after the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chairman duo KP Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ agreed to postpone the Standing Committee meeting, Dahal on Thursday said the meeting will be convened within two days.
Dahal, who has been insisting on holding the Standing Committee meeting, today said Wednesday’s decision to postpone the meeting was due to lack of ample homework.
“We (PM Oli and Dahal) are discussing the issue,” Dahal told journalists in Kathmandu today, adding that they will call the meeting “anytime soon”.
Dahal’s assurances come at a time when Standing Committee members close to him and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal on Thursday morning insisted that the meeting should be convened without any delay.
Party leaders met at the party office in Dhumbarahi have demanded the party leadership to hold the meeting at the earliest to sort our differences within the party on the basis of consensus.
It should be recalled that some 20 Standing Committee members had on April 22 had demanded the party leadership in writing to convene the Standing Committee meeting.
A meeting of the party Secretariat on May 6, which was held to finalize the agenda for the Standing Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday, had ended inconclusively after PM Oli walked out abruptly from the meeting citing ‘tiredness’.
In fact, according to sources, there were heated arguments and exchanges of words between PM Oli and NCP senior leader Nepal and Vice-Chairman Bam Dev Gautam.
Sources claimed that PM Oli was reluctant to budge an inch from his stance to defer the Standing Committee meeting as it had become irrelevant since the government had already withdrawn the controversial ordinances that he had brought two weeks ago.
PM Oli, sources claimed, could not resist the proposal, in fact, the demand of the disgruntled faction led by Dahal and Nepal of ‘one-man-one-post’, which is evident that PM Oli should quit either one of the posts of PM or the party Chairman.
The Dahal-Nepal camp has been demanding the resignation of PM Oli alleging him of failing to perform as per the people’s aspirations.
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