Kathmandu, Nepal, July 21, 2020: The ongoing rivalry among the senior leaders of the ruling head Nepal Communist Party (NCP) over the issue of posts and position in the government and the party likely to transform into ideology after the party plunged into the debate of next general convention.
The Prime Minister and the co-chair of the party KP Oli, who had proposed earlier to accept Pushpa Kamal Dahal as the party’s new chairperson by holding the general convention of the party within December, has now backtracked from his previous commitment forwarding a new proposal that he would do so only if he accept the people’s multi-party democracy.
The proposal of Oli for early general convention of the party to elect Dahal as the next chairperson of the party and ideological debate seems to have forwarded to detach relations among the senior leaders- Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhala Nath Khanal, Bamdev Gautam including Dahal, who had been demanding his resignation from both the pots- Prime Minister and party chairman.
Following the proposal of Oli for early general convention, Dahal had softened his voice in the pretext of resolving the differences of the party through the dialogue. However, the Dahal felt to have cheated when Oli forwarded a proposal before the meeting with President Bidya Devi Bhandari that he would support him to elect as the next chairman of the party only if he accept the people’s multi-party democracy propounded by late Madan Bhandari and followed by former CPN UML.
As Dahal seems to have deviated from the recent stand, some senior leaders of the former CPN Maoist Center have suggested that the stand taken by the senior leaders against of Oli should not be surrendered in the pretext of holding general convention in the December to elect him as the next chairman of the party.
During the meeting held at Dahal’s resident at Khumaltar on Monday morning, standing committee members of the former CPN Maoist Center also apprised that there would not possible to hold general convention by coming December.
Almost all standing committee members of the former CPN Maoist Center, except Ram Bahadur Thapa and Lekhraj Bhatta, presented in the meeting, suggested Dahal to keep the unity intact among the senior leaders.
During the meeting, Dahal told that he would not accept people’s multi-party. The next general convention would chart out new ideology to achieve the goals of socialism, Dahal said in the meeting. Though the former CPN UML and CPN Maoist Center had merged the party naming the new one as NCP, ideological differences are yet to be settled.
