KATHMANDU: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Oli has described the party split as a natural emission of the corrupt leaders and claimed that the party has retained good ones and expelled the corrupt ones of late.
Responding to questions raised at the UML’s first Statute General Convention held at Sunrise Hall in Godavari, Lalitpur, on Sunday, Oli argued that those who were not corrupt yet were still in the UML.
“Some people have registered a new party saying that this party will not work. It has to be reformed and it has to be made new,” said Oli, adding, “Some people are influenced by their slogans. We will clarify our position and retain the leaders mistakenly joining the new party.”
Former Prime Minister Oli used the forum to defend the corruption allegation against his government and counter attacked the then opposition parties as making a mountain out of a molehill.
He also defended the Omni group scam as a propaganda of the opposition.
“Health supplies were brought in during the epidemic. And they chanted slogan against: Omni, Omni. I have repeatedly asked the authorities to investigate. But they tried to discredit us in front of the people,” Oli said.
Aiming at the CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, he said that some frustrated people had attacked him and the party with an ax and tried to tarnish his image.
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