Kathmandu, 30 July: Prime Minister and party chairman KP Sharma Oli and co-chairman Pushpakamal Dahal who are heading different rival camps, are developing new strategy since Tuesday’s developments.
On Tuesday, after the meeting between Oli and Dahal at Baluatar, Oli had one-sidedly postponed the party’s standing committee meeting called for Tuesday, whereas, the camp led by Dahal and party’s senior leader Madhav Nepal had held a meeting of the members of the standing committee closed to them.
At the meeting, party’s vice chairman Bamdev Gautam had presented a six-point document to save the party from a possible split. Gautam’s middle-path document has helped the Oli camp whereas it has weakened Dahal-Nepal camp’s strategy.
After bagging the support from Gautam, Oli has been able to secure a majority on his side in the party’s nine-member secretariat. Therefore, Oli wants to resolve all the disputes from the party secretariat, on the other hand, the Dahal-Nepal camp wants to resume the standing committee meeting and decide on their agenda. In the 45 member party standing committee, a total of 31 members are seen in the Dahal-Nepal camp. Therefore, Dahal-Nepal camp wants to take the demand for Oli’s resignation from the PM and party chairman’s posts.
Of late, with the plan of mounting pressure on Oli for resignation, 152 members of the party central committee belonging to the Dahal-Nepal camp have demanded to call the party central committee meeting to decide on Oli’s fate.
The prolonged drama in the ruling Nepal Communist Party has exhibited greediness of power among the leaders as the ongoing dispute in the party is not based on the communist ideology.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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