Kathmandu, February 21
Top leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party have discussed ways to conclude pending tasks related to the unification of lower level committees of the two parties which merged into one last year.
However, the meeting failed to force conclusion, and ended inconclusively with an agreement to discuss the issue again on Friday.
Though central leaders of the then CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre announced their merger into the NCP last year, their committees at district and local levels are functioning separately till now.
Multiple attempts to finalise the unification model through different task forces have failed.
Therefore, nine top leaders of the party held a Secretariat meeting in their fresh bid to finalise the issue on Thursday.
Chetan Adhikari, press coordinator for Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is chairing the meeting, says members of the Ram Bahadur Thapa-led task force, formed to finalise the unity model, also attended the meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar.
During the meeting, Oli proposed to dissolve the task force as it could not settle the dispute by the deadline. Most of the attendees, however, opposed Oli’s proposal. Oli could get the support of Ishwar Pokharel only.
The task force members argued that they could not complete the assignment on time as top leaders did not cooperate with them.
