KATHMANDU: The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has decided to convene a meeting of its Secretariat meeting tomorrow to discuss issues that have surfaced in the party of late.
The members of the party Secretariat will meet on Monday exactly one month after the previous meeting, which was held on July 18.
Prime Minister KP Oli and NCP Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal were at loggerheads earlier on convening the meeting of the Secretariat.
While PM Oli had insisted on convening the Secretariat meeting, Dahal had proposed a meeting of the Standing Committee to thrash out the intra-party differences.
NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha said tomorrow’s meeting besides discussing the current issues will also provide an impetus to the party.
It may be noted that NCP senior leaders Jhala Nath Khanal and Madhav Kumar Nepal as well as Spokesperson Shrestha had last week demanded a meeting of the Secretariat in a bid to endorse the decision of PM Oli and Dahal on Friday to form a six-member task force to resolve the disputes.
The task force led by NCP General Secretary Bishnu Paudel has Shankar Pokharel, Bhim Rawal, Janardan Sharma, Surendra Pandey and Pampha Bhusal as members.
The task force held its first meeting on Saturday.
The ruling NCP was caught in a quagmire due to the rift between PM Oli and Dahal on power sharing issues.
The dispute further escalated after PM Oli “unilaterally” postponed a meeting of the Standing Committee on July 28.
However, the disgruntled section led by Chairman Dahal continued with the meeting and labelled PM Oli’s decision as “unfortunate”.
PM Oli and Dahal resumed their talks on Thursday – a day after PM Oli, in a television interview last Wednesday, had said that the intra-party rift would be narrowed down within five days, and that the countdown had begun the same day.
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