Kathmandu, October 30
After the gap between two chairpersons of the ruling Nepal Communist Party has widened, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been sending various leaders close to him to another chairman Pusha Kamal Dahal, one after another, in a bid to end the dispute.
Of late, Dahal seems unhappy with Oli as he unilaterally expanded the cabinet, nominated ambassadors, and met India’s foreign intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing chief Samanta Goel. Further, the dispute among the party’s lawmakers in Karnali also left the two leaders at odds.
In this context, Oli is trying to please Dahal. Sources say he has requested Dahal to come to Baluwatar to meet him, but Dahal has been denying.
With his message, Oli sent Foreign Affairs Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali to Dahal today. In the past two days, Oli’s other two confidants–Bishnu Paudel and Shankar Pokhrel–also visited him.
Gyawali, however, says it was a regular meeting and there was nothing special. “It is normal for a standing committee member to meet his party chair,” Gyawali says after the meeting, “Nothing significant was discussed.”
