KATHMANDU: A proposal by Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal to dissolve the party’s current Central Committee and form a preparatory committee for a special party congress in November has faced resistance from two senior leaders.
During the seventh Central Committee meeting held Thursday at Kamaladi, Senior Vice-Chair Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Deputy General Secretary Janardan Sharma rejected Prachanda’s proposal.
Prachanda presented a political and organizational proposal, emphasizing that the party’s current committee should be dissolved, a special congress organized under his leadership, and that elections must be held on schedule with the party’s attention focused on the upcoming polls.
However, Senior Vice-Chair Shrestha opposed the plan, insisting that executive positions must be vacated first. “Step down from your executive positions first,” he said, proposing that a congress be held after the mid-term elections on March 5. He also expressed doubts about the feasibility of holding a special congress in November.
Meanwhile, Deputy General Secretary Sharma linked the recent Gen-Z uprising to the party losing its way from the path of the people’s war. He proposed that all office bearers resign and a director committee be formed under Prachanda’s leadership during the same meeting. Sharma also called for guarantees of leadership transition to the new generation in the upcoming congress.
“The current uprising reflects the consequences of the Maoist party straying from the path of the people’s war,” Sharma said. “We made immense sacrifices during the people’s war, but the public became disillusioned seeing the Maoists follow the same path as the previously corrupt Nepali Congress and UML, which fueled anger leading to the Gen-Z uprising.”
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