Kathmandu, September 28

Senior leader of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Madhav Kumar Nepal, who is upset for ‘being ignored by the party leadership’ during the process of nominating chiefs and other office bearers of party’s provincial committees, called an informal meeting of members of the standing committee to discuss his grudges against party leadership. This meeting was called when both co-chairpersons of the party, KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, are out of the country.

NCP leader Beduram Bhausal, who is close to Nepal, said the former prime minister told the participants that he disapproved of the party’s decision to nominate 28 office bearers of the provincial committees as it was done by a secretariat meeting and not the standing committee, an authentic body to take decision on such matters.

Bhusal said Nepal also told leaders that the standing committee meeting should be called immediately to discuss people’s grievances against the government.

According to Bhusal, Nepal also told the gathering that the standing committee meeting needed to be called also to discuss people’s dissatisfaction with the government’s ‘poor performance.’ The meeting was also attended by Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Bamdev Gautam.

Another leader who attended the meeting said Nepal told party leaders that the party leadership was taking decisions unilaterally bypassing the standing committee.

Nepal called the meeting a day after he flayed his own party’s government in the House of Representatives, ‘for failing to maintain law and order and improving governance’.

Nepal, who had kept quiet all these months after the party’s unification, has started criticising the party’s leadership ignoring   Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s recent grudge that party leaders and cadres were not reacting like hornets against the detractors of the government.

A source close to Nepal told THT that Oli had promised to nominate office bearers of provincial committees only after returning from United Nations General Assembly tour, but he named them before embarking on UNGA tour.

The source said Nepal was also unhappy with the party leadership for violating the criteria for selecting office bearers. “There was an understanding in the party that one party leader will not be assigned two roles, but the party leadership violated this by making two chief ministers provincial committees’ in-charge,” the source added.

“CMs have crucial role to play in the governance and should not be assigned party work,” the source quoted Nepal as saying.

Narayan Kaji Shrestha is also unhappy about the nomination of provincial committees’ office bearers made on September 21.

A source added that Shrestha, before embarking on China trip,  had told top leaders that he was ready to cancel his trip if there was urgency to name office bearers of provincial and other lower committees, but the party leadership told him that the decision would not be taken before he returns. Both Nepal and Shrestha were out of the country when office bearers of provincial committees were named.

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