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Kathmandu, Nepal, October 15, 2020: Standing Committee meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) scheduled for Wednesday would enter in the set agendas to discuss over the political documents presented by chairmen duo KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal even though the consensus attempts are underway to combine the separate documents for consensus.
As Oli has felled under minority in all the party committees, he and his loyalists have intensified meetings with the aim to woo the Dahal led faction. However, no consensus is made yet thanks to the rigid stance of the Dahal led faction.
Majority of the secretariat members including senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal have repeatedly been cautioning that any secret deal between the chairmen duo will not be acceptable to them.
Considering to the recent meetings between the chairmen duo Oli and Dahal, the leaders loyal to Nepal have suggested Dahal even not to hold meeting with Oli and not to give time to his loyalties namely- Subash Chandra Nembang and Shankar Pokhrel.
The Standing Committee scheduled for Wednesday will enter in the agendas to take a decision on the two documents, Yubraj Gyawali, a standing committee member loyal to Nepal, said ‘the meeting will take decision on the basis of the majority if consensus was not made in the Standign Committee meeting.
‘As the Secretariat of the party had failed to decide on the two documents, following which both the documents were sent to the Standing Committee, there should be discussed on both the documents for the decision,’ he said.
The Dahal led faction, which is backed by the party’s senior leaders, has a rigid stand that there will be no consensus until and unless Oli step down either from the post of Prime Minister or from the party co-chair.
As the Dahal led faction has clear-cut majority strength in the Standing Committee and the central committee, they have planned to take decision through the majority even if Oli does not agree to step down from a post.
Oli, however, has been forwarding the stance that he would not step down from any posts even though has no majority even in the parliamentary party. He has already made clear that he will quit the post of chairman until the upcoming general convention and the prime minister until the next parliamentary elections.
Even though the ruling NCP has witnessed an intra-party dispute since establishment of the incumbent government, government’s recent ‘unilateral’ decision to appoint ambassadors, reshuffle of cabinet, registration of no-confidence motion against Karnali Province Chief Minister, meeting with the head of India’s spy agencies and many others had brought the differences at this stage reaching the party at the verge to vertical split.
Following the widening differences, party’s executive chairman Dahal had tabled a 19 page long political proposal at the secretariat meeting on November 13 alleging Oli on ranges of issues including his involvement in corruption and intending to split the party. Responding to the Dahal’s proposal Oli had on November 28 presented a 38 page long political documents.
