Kathmandu, Nepal: With the ending of the swearing-in of the provincial assembly members with the concussion of other procedures related to the National Assembly (NA) elections, race for the Chief Minister has begun in all the seven provinces triggering internal feud in almost all major parties particularly in the CPN UML and the CPN Maoist Center.
As the leftist alliance is poised in six provinces except province number 2, inter and intra party race has begun in the two parties. As numbers of aspirants for post of Chief Ministers are high in both the parties, not only the internal differences are mounted but also the leaders have felt difficulties to manage the differences among the leftist alliances.
Though the UML and Maoist have divided 4 and 2 seats of Chief Ministers respectively, inter and intra party rivalry is intensified in both the parties to be the official candidate from the respective party, particularly in the UML.
The leftist alliance is poised to form governments in all provinces except Province 2. The alliance of the Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum-Nepal and the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal has a majority to form the government in the province number 2.
The probable candidates for the post of Chief Ministers have lobbying by reaching on their power centers in the mean time when the top leaders of both the parties have found hard to manage the share of the post and portfolios in to be formed government and to be united party.
As the CPN-UML and the CPN Maoist Centre have not reach on the understanding yet over the issue of candidates of the Chief Ministers deputy chief ministers, speakers, deputy speakers and other prominent posts including provincial ministers, it is likely that the issue of sharing the post of Chief Minister would not be settled easily sans management in other posts among the high aspirants of both the parties.
It is said that the Maoist leaders have been insisting to lead the governments in provinces 6 and 7. But the some of the UML leaders have been exerting pressure to the leadership with the demand that the post of chief minister should go to the UML because it has a majority in the Province.
Yamlal Kadel, one of the probable candidates of Chief Minister in Province number 6 from the UML, had issued even a press statement demanding the post of chief minister should go to the party hinting about his interest in the post.
It is likely that there would not be huge differences in province 5 though Kul Prasad KC of the CPN Maoist Center has also been claiming himself as the probable candidate for the post. The UML has picked Shankar Pokhrel as the chief minister candidate in the province.
In Province 4, UML leaders Kiran Gurung and Prithivi Subba Gurung are in forefront with the claim of the post of Chief Minister. Likewise, in province number 1, Sherdhan Rai and Bhim Acharya of the UML are claiming the post. It seem that the probable candidates are emerged reflecting to the factionalism of the party.
Though the Sanghiya, Samajbadi Forum- Nepal ((SSF-N) and the Rastriya Janata Party- Nepal (RJP-N) shares about equal share in province number 2, Lalbabu Raut and Bijay Yadav of SSF-N are in forefront with the claim of the post. Similarly, about half a dozen RJPN leaders have also been claiming the post of Chief Minister in the Province number 2 though Manish Suman seems in forefront in the list from the RJP-N.
Likewise, in Province 3, Asta Laxmi Shakya and Rajendra Pandey of the UML, in Province 6, Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, Naresh Bhandari of the CPN Maoist Center and Prakash Jwala including Kandel of the UML have been claiming the post. Similarly, in Province 7, Trilochan Bhatta, Nirban Chaudhary, Mahesh Joshi, Man Bahadur Dhami, Jhapat Bohora and Devaki Malla of the CPN Maoist Center are claiming the post.
