KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli, Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are holding a gathering today to narrow down their differences on some thorny issues within the party.
Senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal is participating in today’s meeting that began at Baluwatar at 11:30 am following a series of one-on-one meetings within the past between the 2 heavyweights reaching nowhere.
Deputy Parliamentary Party leader Subas Nembang said Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, ruling party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are holding a tripartite meeting at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Baluwatar.
“Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Nepal Communist Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are participating during a tripartite meeting at Baluwatar. The meeting is predicted to mapped out intra-party differences today since top leaders are involved within the meeting,” said Subas Nembang.
A meeting persisted Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar had ended inconclusively with both the leaders remaining adamant to their respective stance. Despite holdings talks for quite two-and-a-half-hours, there have been no signs of budging an in. . .
According to Surya Thapa, the Press Advisor to the Prime Minister, today’s meeting are going to be a continuation of the series of talks between the 2 aimed toward finalizing the agenda for the committee (SC) meeting to be persisted Friday.
The SC meeting of the NCP has been postponed time and again after the one-on-one meeting between Dahal and Oli have ended inconclusively.
Earlier, two heavyweights had held one-on-one meetings for 6 times (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday every week ago and on July 14 and 15 after six days) but without success.
The SC meeting slated for July 10 was postponed for July 17 stating that the entire party rank and file had to participate in rescue and relief operations for flood victims. The intra-party feud of the ruling NCP has deepened after most of the committee members demanded resignation of Prime Minister Oli from both of his posts.
Senior leader Nepal and his aides are disappointed as they need not been involved within the talks. It's learned that NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha, too, is dissatisfied with the ‘one-on-one’ dialogue between the NCP top guns.
The party leadership is currently struggling to stay the party intact since around 53 central committee members of the party had earlier initiated a signature campaign to convene the party’s central board meeting.
They have argued that the meeting of the 441-member central committee are going to be more impactful than the 45-member committee.
According to the NCP statute, the leadership will need to call the meeting of the central committee if 25 percent, i.e., 110 members signed the document.