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UML’s Khanal-Nepal faction decides to concentrate on party unity



KATHMANDU: CPN-UML’s disgruntled Khanal-Nepal faction has decided to stop the blame game and concentrate on party unity.

The standing committee meeting of the faction chaired by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal decided to ignore the verbal criticisms made by the other side and work further sincerely for party unity.

The Monday meeting of the group decided to seek further concrete elaboration of the 10 point agreement made by the task force hailing some of the points included in the agreement as abstract.

According to UML sources, the meeting decided to purpose to redraft the agreement by regarding both Chairman KP Oli and senior leader Madhav Nepal as the party chairmen till the next general convention.

Leaders of the Chairman Oli faction have already put forward a proposal to make Madhav Nepal the second chairman to resolve the dispute within the UML. Although some leaders of Madhav Nepal’s party seem to agree with this proposal, the leader Nepal has not accepted it.

A leader of Khanal-Nepal faction claimed that the second generation leaders have already prepared a draft as per leader Nepal’s proposal and senior leaders will ink the agreement in few days.

Publish Date : 26 July 2021 19:00 PM

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