Kathmandu, April 29
Amidst escalating internal differences in the ruling Nepal Communist Party, the party’s chairman Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called a meeting of the party secretariat on Wednesday evening.
After the government issued two controversial ordinances without consulting other leaders in the party last week, influential leaders of the party including the party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Oli leadership. Twenty members of the party’s standing committee, apparently backed by the two leaders, have asked Oli to hold the standing committee meeting at the earliest.
Oli has been repeatedly consulting leaders close to him and those belonging to the disgruntled camp in his bid to regain the lost control over the party. He had called the secretariat meeting after consulting Dahal yesterday.
Oli fears many members of his party want to remove him either from the party’s chairmanship or the premiership or both. He is looking for ways to secure both the positions or at least one.
The meeting shall convene at the prime minister’s residence in Baluwatar at 5 pm today. Earlier, the meeting was said to be held on Tuesday, but it was postponed as the leaders were busy in negotiations.
