Kathmandu, April 28
Two chairpersons of the ruling Nepal Communist Party have held a meeting to discuss the recently surfaced dispute in the party.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and the party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting at Oli’s government residence in Baluwatar this afternoon.
After the government issued two controversial ordinances without consulting other leaders in the party last week, influential leaders of the party including Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Oli leadership. Twenty members of the party’s standing committee, apparently backed by the two leaders, have asked Oli to hold the standing committee meeting at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the leadership is yet to decide when to hold the standing committee meeting. It was reported last night that the leaders agreed to convene a secretariat meeting on Tuesday. But, a member today says it is not certain when the meeting will be held.
As of now, Oli has lost the majority support in the committee and he apparently fears that the members want to remove him either from the party’s chairmanship or the premiership. Hence, he has expedited talks with the senior leaders of late.
