KATHMANDU: Ruling CPN-UML’s disgruntled Khanal-Nepal faction has decided not to attend the general convention organizing committee meeting convened by party Chairman and Prime Minister KP Oli.
According to Khanal-Nepal faction’s influencing leader Ashta Laxmi Shakya, their group would not join the general convention organizing committee formed arbitrarily by party Chairman Oli.
Despite the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring the organizing committee not as per the party constitution, Chairman Oli has called the general convention organizing committee’s meeting on June 30.
Khanal-Nepal faction has interpreted the convening of the meeting held against the party constitution as PM Oli’s gesture that he does not want to include Khanal-Nepal faction in the party committees.
“Calling a meeting of the organizing committee at a time when the legitimacy of the organizing committee is being questioned has made it clear that PM Oli does not want UML unity,” a dissident leader Shakya said on Sunday.
She accused Chairman Oli faction of hatching conspiracy against the party and communist movement as a whole.
“PM Oli is still doing everything arbitrarily. If he wanted unity, he would not be hatching conspiracy one after another,” she said, adding “When we have sought the party committees to be restored as in June 16, 2018 situation, he has called a meeting of the committee he formed whimsically.”
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