KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli is a ‘troubled’ man now as he is cognizant about the ‘conspiracies’ hatched against him to oust him.
On Tuesday, he held a meeting with Nepal Communist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal as an effort to hash out the intra-party row.
The previous day, he held a one-on-one meeting, speculated as weighty, with party senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Some call it PM Oli’s efforts to woo Dahal and Nepal, who are particularly disgruntled with Oli and his working style – both as the government head and the party Chairman.
It was widely speculated that leaders of the nine-member Secretariat would meet on Tuesday to narrow down the differences. The meeting could not be held as the leaders remained occupied in ‘factional meetings’ the whole day.
The meeting of the Secretariat, meanwhile, has been decided to be held on Wednesday, party sources said.
Now, PM Oli, who is continuously facing pressure from the party even after the withdrawal of controversial ordinances, is learned to have prepared himself for the worst as his ‘opponents inside the party’ are hell-bent on removing him from Baluwatar.
Party insiders say that PM Oli has even ‘instructed’ his confidantes to be prepared to face any sort of ‘worse’ consequences.
On Monday night, a ‘restless’ PM met with Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana night at his official residence in Baluwatar amid series of meetings — including the one held at a government building in Koteswor on Monday late afternoon — of the disgruntled faction of the party led by senior leader Nepal.
The meeting between Chief Justice and Prime Minister is viewed as significant in the current political scenario at a time when the latter has come under fire after he brought two ordinances a week ago and was compelled to withdraw them after criticisms from all quarters, including his party.
There have been reports that following Oli’s move to bring ordinances and their withdrawal, leaders loyal to Dahal-Madav faction are ‘set’ to relieve Oli of his responsibility as the Prime Minister.
Therefore, PM Oli has intensified meetings and his activities after he ‘realized’ that he has fallen into minority in Party Secretariat, Standing Committee and even the Parliamentary Party.
Meanwhile, China, too, has been concerned over the latest political developments in Nepal.
On Monday, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi met with President Bidya Bhandari and is learned to have discussed the developments in the country.
Likewise, even Chinese President Xi Jinping held a telephonic conversation with his counterpart Bidya Bhandari on Monday night.
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