Pyuthan, May 31
Nepal Communist Party leader Bamdev Gautam has said leaders of erstwhile CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre had agreed to change the government leadership while unifying the parties to form the NCP last year, warning a failure to implement the deal might thwart the unification.
Speaking at a press meet in his home district Pyuthan on Friday, Gautam, who was closely involved the unification negotiation on behalf of the UML, supported then Maoist Centre chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal about the issue.
Gautam said no one should violate the agreement.
Dahal, one of the two chairs of the NCP, had recently told a television channel that he and incumbent Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, then UML chair, had agreed to share the government leadership for an equal period of time, hoping Oli would hand over the premiership after around one year.
After Gautam seconded Dahal, the issue is likely to further divide the NCP leaders in the future.
In another context, Gautam said the budget plan for the next fiscal year which the government presented in Parliament on Wednesday favoured people’s agenda.
The leader called the main opposition Nepali Congress party to play its role as an opposition party well.
