• CPN-MC GENERAL CONVENTION

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 30

• Submits a note of dissent

• Wants leaders' property probed

CPN-Maoist Centre leader Lekhnath Neupane has countered party Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the party's ongoing eighth general convention by submitting a note of dissent against Dahal's political document.

In his 10-point note of dissent, Neupane said during a group deliberation that Dahal's document contained rightist revisionist views and it was regressive compared to the document adopted during the last general convention. He said Dahal's document lacked basic elements of communist movement.

Without analysing the status of proletariats, people below poverty line, and youths migrating in droves for jobs abroad, goals of socialism cannot be achieved, Neupane added.

One of his main argument is that Maoist leaders were following personality cult just like those in the CPN-UML. He said that Dahal's self-centred individualism was reflected in his document because Dahal was trying to take credit for party decisions, denying credit to the party.

Terming the CPN-MC's merger with the KP Sharma Oli-led CPN- UML in 2018 a guerrilla style act, Neupane said the merger with the UML was wrong from all angles.

Dahal has, however, said that the party's decision to merge with the UML was right from all standpoints.

Neupane criticised Dahal for not speaking about Millennium Challenge Corporation pact signed with the USA and unequal treaties.

He said that the downfall of his party was mainly due to the opaque economic life of party leaders.

He also underlined the need to form a probe committee to investigate party leaders' property.

Meanwhile, discussions on Dahal's political report concluded today.

According to CPN-MC leader Govinda Acharya, most of the speakers said that the party should reject MCC or pass it only after amendments are made to the deal.

He said leaders also asked Dahal to make it clear in his document what his views about class were and how he viewed other parties.


A version of this article appears in the print on December 31, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.