KATHMANDU: Breaking a silence of more than week, Chairman of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” has reached Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar to hold talks with Prime Minister KP Oli.
Baluwatar sources said Dahal and PM Oli are holding talks on contemporary politics, basically on power sharing, among others issues.
NCP General Secretary Bishnu Poudel, Chief Minister of Province 5 Shankar Pokhrel, and Standing Committee member Janardhan Sharma are also involved in the talks, Baluwatar sources said.
The two top leaders are at loggerheads with Dahal and his camp demanding the resignation of PM Oli while the latter adamant to his stance of not stepping down at any cost.
Dahal has been insisting on convening a meeting of the party’s Standing Committee, which he claims PM Oli is in minority.
PM Oli, meanwhile, has been insisting on a meeting of the party nine-member Secretariat to address the current internal disputes.
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