KATHMANDU: The ‘one-on-one’ meeting between Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Prime Minister KP Oli ended inconclusively today as well.
The two-hour-long meeting held at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar could not make any headway as both the leaders stuck to their respective stance with no signs of budging.
Sources said that Prime Minister Oli is still adamant to his stance of not resigning from both the posts of party Chairman and Prime Minister.
Dahal is also learned to have raised the issue of the rallies being organized in favor of PM Oli in different parts of the country, which Dahal claimed was aimed at intimidating the dissident camp.
Dahal asked PM Oli to stop such rallies to create a conducive environment of trust.
The duo are currently engaged in ‘serious’ talks aimed at narrowing down the differences that have escalated since the last two weeks within the party.
Chairman Dahal had earlier insisted ‘one-on-one’ talks to thrash out the disputes between the two leaders.
Meanwhile, what has to be noted is that party senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is one of the disgruntled leaders within the party in Dahal’s camp, was not involved in the meeting.
This, as observers say, is an indication that senior leader Nepal will be left out yet again.
Senior leader Nepal and his aides are disappointed as they have not been involved in the talks. It is learned that NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha, too, is dissatisfied with the ‘one-on-one’ dialogue between the NCP top guns.
Dahal and Oli are still at loggerheads over some serious issues, particularly after PM Oli alleged the dissident faction of dancing to the tunes of India to oust him.
Meanwhile, the NCP’s Standing Committee meeting has been scheduled on Friday.
The party leadership is currently under pressure to keep the party intact since around 53 central committee members of the party has already initiated a signature campaign to convene the party’s central committee meeting.
They have argued that the meeting of the 441-member central committee will be more impactful than the 45-member Standing Committee.
According to the NCP statute, the leadership will have to call the meeting of the central committee if 25 percent, i.e., 110 members signed the document.
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