Kathmandu, July 15
Two chairpersons of the ruling Nepal Communist Party have held a meeting in Kathmandu on Wednesday also. However, they did not make any progress in resolving the dispute between them.
Sources privy to the meeting say the meeting between KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal lasted for three hours. Whereas Bishnu Paudel, close to Oli, and Janardan Sharma, close to Dahal, had also joined the two leaders for some time, Oli and Dahal sat together unaccompanied later.
Though concrete results of the discussion are not clear yet, sources claim the meeting was positive. The two leaders have agreed to continue the discussion.
Owing to a dispute between the two leaders, the party’s ongoing standing committee meeting has been postponed till coming Friday.
When the meeting began last month, Dahal and a majority of the standing committee had demanded that Oli resign both as the prime minister and the party chair. Oli, however, has been refusing to budge, pushing the party into a standstill.
Since then, Oli and Dahal have met several times, mostly one-on-one, but to no avail.
