UML row: Task force reaches 10-point deal, yet to be endorsed by Oli, Nepal

Ratopati July 12, 2021

UML row: Task force reaches 10-point deal, yet to be endorsed by Oli, Nepal

KATHMANDU, July 12: A meeting of the ten-member task force formed to resolve intraparty disputes in the CPN (UML) sealed a ten-point deal on Sunday evening.

A member of the task force, Bhim Rawal shared that the meeting finaled the deal which is to be presented to the party leadership.

The panel, which comprises five members each from two rival factions --- one led by Chairman KP Sharma Oli and the other by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, agreed to resolve all the intraparty issues through the procedural manner.

Similarly, organizational structures of the party will be revived as they were on May 16, 2018 --- before the erstwhile Nepal Communist Party (NCP) was formed. According to the deal, the central committee members nominated on May 17, 2018 will also be included in the party organization.

With this, the political and organizational activities of the party that are not in line with the party's legal system and unity following the revival of the UML through the March 7 order of the Supreme Court, have automatically been invalidated.

Party’s Standing Committee meeting scheduled for Sunday, which was reportedly preparing to endorse the agreement of the task force, was also put off until Monday while the party’s central committee meeting has been summoned for 11:00 am on July 13, CPN (UML) Central Office Secretary Sher Bahadur Tamang said.

Disputes had surfaced in the CPN (UML) after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Representatives on May 22 despite the formation of a 10-member task force on May 16 on the basis of consensus of CPN (UML) Chairman Oli and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.

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.