Kathmandu, February 11:

A group of second generation UML leaders today registered a separate political document in the party headquarters, challenging the party’s views on some key ideological issues

represented in a political report approved by a recent central committee meeting for discussion in the upcoming general convention.

Ghanashyam Bhusal, who is a member of the party’s school department, leads the dissident group to challenge the party’s views on the present-day world, characteristics of Nepali society, class analysis, social contradiction, analysis of People’s Multiparty Democracy (PMPD) and the way of Nepali revolution.

A copy of the dissident views was handed over to the party general secretary Jhala Nath Khanal. The dissident views would also be discussed in the party’s eighth general convention.

Bhusal said there were fundamental differences between the present-day world and the world lived by Lenin. When Lenin waged October Revolution in Russia in 1917, there was colonialism and nationalistic movement was on its heights. But the party’s official document, Bhusal said, still believes in what was described by Lenin. He contradicted with the party’s political report, which still insists that the Nepali society was “semi-feudal” and “semi-colonial,” as described by late communist leader Pushpalal Shrestha way back in 1950s.

In his paper, Bhusal says the Nepali society is chiefly capitalistic though it is comprador in it nature. He also challenges the party’s official view on class analysis, one of the basics of Marxist philosophy.

He has also challenged the party’s official views on society’s contradiction. Party’s official paper says that Nepali people have main contradiction with feudal, reactionary and status quoist forces. He, however, maintains that major contradiction of Nepali society is between the comprador capitalists and nationalist capitalists, if the society is believed to be essentially capitalistic.

He has also challenged the party leadership for terming the People’s Multiparty Democracy (PMPD) as the party’s political principle.

“First, the party should be clear how a political programme or policy becomes an accepted principle,” he said, adding that the party leadership described the PMPD as the party’s guiding principle without defining it on the Marxist principle.

Meet to see 5pc nominated reps

Kathmandu: A central committee meeting of the CPN-UML on Wednesday decided to nominate five per cent of the total delegates for the party’s upcoming general convention.

Although the final list of the delegates is yet to be fixed, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, a central committee member, said the party headquarters had received a list of 1,638 persons so far.

The lists of delegates are yet to come from the Sagarmatha Zone and far-western region.

In the meeting, convention coordinator Bharat Mohan Adhikari briefed the CC about the preparations being made in Butwal Mandap for the convention.

Keshav Badal who is spearheading mass mobilisation panel told the meeting that around half-a-million people would attend the inaugural session of the convention.

A central committee member told this daily that Adhikari presented an estimated budget of Rs 40 million to successfully hold the convention being held six years after the seventh convention in Janakpur. — HNS