UML task force meeting kicks off

KATHMANDU, July 9: A meeting of the ruling CPN-UML task force formed to sort out the intraparty row has kicked off at the Ministry of Finance in Singha Durbar, Kathmandu. 

The task force has not yet sorted out the differences and reached a common understanding though it has been holding a series of meetings for the past ten days. 

The members, who represent the faction led by Chairman KP Oli, have reportedly presented themselves softly as the members close to the rival faction, led by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, showed their aggression at Thursday's meeting. The members of the task force held an informal discussion on Friday morning. 

According to a member of the Nepal faction, they are likely to reach an agreement on Friday. “Our only demand is they [Oli faction] revocate all the decisions which they took after March 7.”

The taskforce members include party leaders, Subas Chandra Nembang, Bishnu Prasad Poudel, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Shankar Pokharel and Bishnu Prasad Rimal from the side of Prime Minister and party chair Oli and Dr Bhim Bahadur Rawal, Ghanashyam Bhusal, Surendra Prasad Pandey, Gokarna Raj Bista and Raghuji Pant from party leader Nepal camp.