Kathmandu:
Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari has known as an all-party meeting on Tuesday to talk about modern difficulties amid the political crisis that has gripped the nation, with the ruling CPN-UML factions, which includes the one led by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, generating final-ditch efforts to strike a deal to sustain the government, according to media reports on Tuesday.
Tika Dhakal, a senior communication specialist at the Office of the President, stated that President Bidya Devi Bhandari has known as a meeting of leaders of all political parties represented in Parliament as effectively as former prime ministers to talk about modern politics, the Kathmandu Post reported.
The parties represented in the Nepal Parliament that will attend the meeting are Prime Minister Oli’s CPN-UML, Nepali Congress led by Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal, CPN-Maoist Centre led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, Janata Samajbadi Party, Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, Rashtriya Janamorcha and Nepal Majdoor Lisa Party.
The meeting comes amid a political crisis triggered by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s dissolution of the House of Representatives in December. However, in a landmark ruling, the major court final month reinstated the decrease property of Parliament.
K P Sharma Oli’s move led to the Prachanda-led CPN-MC to split from the ruling NCP.
Prominent leaders of the CPN-UML’s Nepal faction – Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal had also sided with Prachanda in searching for K P Sharma Oli’s resignation as Prime Minister.
To make the circumstance worse, the Supreme Court not too long ago nullified CPN-MC”s merger with CPN-UML. The two parties had merged in May 2018 to kind a unified Nepal Communist Party following the victory of their alliance in the 2017 common elections.
According to the report, K P Sharma Oli will face a crisis if the CPN-MC withdraws its assistance it had lent to the UML in 2018. Talks have also been going on amongst the Nepali Congress, Maoist and Samajbadi leaders to kind a coalition government.
The all-party meeting by the President also comes at a time when the CPN-UML as well seems to be headed for a split even although Madhav Kumar Nepal and Khanal returned to the UML fold immediately after the Supreme Court’s selection, it stated.
According to a report in The Himalayan Times, a meeting involving the leader of the two CPN-UML factions on Monday ended in a stalemate with Nepal and Khanal demanding K P Sharma Oli to take back his selection on Friday that divested leaders close to the duo of important responsibilities in the party.
Nepal, immediately after the meeting, stated that his faction told K P Sharma Oli to rescind his selection and restore the party structure that existed just before the UML’s merger with the CPN-Maoist Centre.
On Friday, the Central Committee meeting of the CPN (UML) led by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli had nominated 23 leaders of Maoist Centre, which includes the ministers to the party’s central committee which the faction opposing him has stated, is against the norms of the party. He also changed the responsibilities of party leaders, stripping leaders close to Nepal of their responsibilities.
“K P Sharma Oli was not ready to withdraw the unilateral decisions made on March 12,” stated Bhim Rawal, a Standing Committee member.
“We are ready to reconcile if K P Sharma Oli withdraws the March 12 decisions. Or else, we will go ahead with our decisions,” he was quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post.
Deputy parliamentary party leader Subas Chandra Nembang stated that variations involving the two factions could not be resolved. The establishment faction told the rival faction that the Supreme Court”s selection to nullify the unification involving the UML and the CPN-MC was an chance to take the party forward unitedly.
A leader from the establishment faction was quoted as saying by The Himalayan Times that the Nepal-Khanal faction kept questioning the legality of the party’s March 12 selection, but the establishment faction kept arguing that the meeting held to take that selection was valid.
Meanwhile, the Nepal-Khanal faction wrote a letter to the Election Commission on Sunday, urging it not to implement the choices taken by the establishment faction led by K P Sharma Oli.
They have argued that the amendment created to the party’s statute by the K P Sharma Oli-faction was illegal, stating that as per the party’s statute, its provisions could be amended only by the party’s General Convention or Statute Amendment Council.