KATHMANDU, MARCH 27
The Madhav Kumar Nepal-Jhalanath Khanal faction of CPN-UML today held a meeting of the group's central committee and decided to urge the party leadership to call a meeting of the central committee that existed before the CPN-UML merged with the CPN-Maoist Centre.
The Nepal-Khanal faction leader Surendra Prasad Pandey said his faction had decided to fight a legal battle if the party leadership did not call the CC meeting.
UML Chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has, however, refused to rescind his decision to amend the party statute and induct 23 former Maoist leaders in the party Central Committee.
The faction has threatened to revive parallel committees if party Chair Oli does not revive committees that existed before the UML's merger with the CPN-MC. The Nepal-Khanal faction has said that they had maintained their majority in the party committees, but Oli unilaterally amended the party statute to ensure his own majority in the party.
A version of this article appears in the print on March 28, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
