KATHMANDU: Prime Minister and Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chairman KP Oli has proposed to hand over the leadership to the new generation.
He has even questioned whether Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ would be ready for that.
In a written reply to Prachanda’s earlier proposal, Oli said, “I want to make an open call today – let’s start this process of sacrifice today! Let the comrades who have repeatedly led the government and the party no longer take responsibility and announce that it will be handed over to the new generation! I am ready to make this document a formal instrument of transfer of responsibility! Are you ready?”
Stating that he has already informed the Standing Committee meeting that he will not be in charge of the chairperson from the upcoming general convention and will not become the prime minister after the next election, he has also warned Prachanda not to be engaged in toppling the government.
Oli has denied allegations that Prachanda accused him of being an ‘individualist’, ‘factionalist’, and ‘monopolistic’.
He also expressed dissatisfaction over the allegations leveled by Prachanda against him for ‘encouraging and protecting corruption’, ‘harming the country by displaying incompetence in foreign affairs and diplomacy’, ‘anti-federalism’, and so on.
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