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NCP secretariat meeting: Standing committee to settle row
Disputes dogging the ruling Nepal Communist Party in the recent days—from the merger of party’s lower organisations to the growing rift between senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal with Co-chairman KP Sharma Oli—would be resolved through the standing committee meeting, the party’s central secretariat meeting decided on Monday.Disputes dogging the ruling Nepal Communist Party in the recent days—from the merger of party’s lower organisations to the growing rift between senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal with Co-chairman KP Sharma Oli—would be resolved through the standing committee meeting, the party’s central secretariat meeting decided on Monday.
Though the meeting was expected to discuss the way out to settle the discontent inside the party, the three-hour long session mostly focused on the recent foreign trips of Prime Minister Oli, Co-chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other leaders.
The next central secretariat meeting has been called for Wednesday to finalise the agenda and the date for the standing committee meeting, said NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha.“The standing committee will give final shape to the recently formed provincial committees and finalise the unification of district committees and sister wings,” Shrestha said.
He added that the standing committee will also try to address the concern of senior leader Nepal about the party’s decision to appoint provincial chiefs in his absence and discuss the ways to make the party and the government more effective.
Besides Nepal, Shrestha, too, has voiced his reservation on the party leadership appointing the office-bearers of provincial committees.
Shrestha, just like Nepal, was also out of the country when the party’s central secretariat made those appointments. The NCP spokesperson has claimed that the provincial committees were put together by violating the party regulations.
Some party leaders say that the provincial committees were set up in absence of Nepal and Shrestha at the insistence of Ishwor Pokhrel and Jhala Nath Khanal.
Nepal, meanwhile, has also been expressing displeasure about the way the Oli-led government has conducted itself so far.
He had made his views known before Parliament a few weeks earlier.
The Nepal faction has been demanding meetings of the standing committee and the central committee to discuss the performance of the government and the party leadership.