KATHMANDU: Amid escalating intra-party disputes, Chairmen of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and KP Oli held discussions to narrow down the differences.
The meeting held at Prime Minister’s official residence, Baluwatar on Friday, basically focused on resolving the ongoing political dispute within the party, and other contemporary issues, including the budget session of the parliament that begins today.
The meeting also discussed convening the meeting of the Standing Committee at the earliest.
Party leaders, including NCP General Secretary Bishnu Poudel, Subash Chandra Nemwang, party Chief f Whip Dev Gurung, and party Whip Shanta Chaudhary, too, had reached Baluwatar on Friday.
Today’s meeting has been considered crucial at a time when Prachanda on Thursday had expressed the commitment of holding the Standing Committee meeting in ‘a day or two’.
It should also be noted that as many as 20 Standing Committee members on Thursday held a meeting to pressurize the party leadership to hold the meeting at the earliest.
The Standing Committee meeting, which was earlier scheduled to be held on Thursday was postponed owing to the differences among the party top brass.
A Secretariat meeting was held on Wednesday to finalize the agenda for the meeting, which, however ended inconclusively as PM Oli walked out of the meeting citing ‘tiredness’.
Since then Prachanda has been wooing PM Oli to hold the meeting of the Standing Committee.
Sources have claimed that PM Oli has been 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from his stance to defer the Standing Committee meeting as it had become irrelevant since the government had already withdrawn the controversial ordinances that he had brought two weeks ago.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 [arty 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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