Kathmandu, July 10
The standing committee meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party has been deferred again, for at least one week.
The party spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha informed on his Twitter page that the meeting was postponed for one week as the party leaders and cadres were needed to get involved in response to recent floods and landslides caused by incessant rainfall across the country. However, it is apparent that the meeting could not take place as the two chairpersons of the party, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, could not forge consensus on settling an ongoing dispute between them.
The meeting has been postponed time and again recently due to the same reason.
Of late, Dahal and a majority of the secretariat and standing committee members have demanded that Oli resign both as the PM and the chairman citing his incapability, which Oli has been refusing.
The deadlock has led many to fear if the party, formed after the merger of the then CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre led by KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal respectively in 2018, would split again.
