Narayankaji Shrestha Calls Provincial Government Changes Undesirable

Kathmandu. Nepali Communist Party (NCP) leader Narayankaji Shrestha has said that the current incident of changing provincial governments is undesirable and regrettable. Leader Shrestha, writing a status on social media Facebook on Friday evening, said that this situation has arisen due to the decisions of the Nepali Congress and NCP (UML).

He said: 'Currently, discussions about changing various provincial governments have surfaced. This situation has arisen due to the decisions of the Nepali Congress and NCP (UML). When the political events proceed regularly, with the provincial assembly elections to be held in about a year, the incident of changing the government at this time is undesirable and regrettable.'

He stated that his party, NCP, has already made a policy decision in this regard and wrote-Currently, discussions about changing various provincial governments have surfaced. This situation has arisen due to the decisions of the Nepali Congress and NCP (UML). When the political events proceed regularly, with the provincial assembly elections to be held in about a year, the incident of changing the government at this time is undesirable and regrettable.

Our party has already made the following policy decisions in this regard. One, our party will not be proactive in changing provincial governments and participating in the government. Let the Nepali Congress and UML run the government for the remaining time. Our party will not engage in the game of toppling and forming governments. Two, if the Nepali Congress and UML jointly request our party to participate in the government because they cannot run the government together in the current situation, an understanding can be reached to run the government together until the next election. However, this will be accepted as an exception. Because the formation of such a government is not generally the right thing to do. Three, if the Nepali Congress and UML are in a situation where they cannot sit together in the same government, then to prevent the situation from moving towards the dissolution of the provincial assembly and immediate fresh elections, we can proceed by accepting the compulsion to form a government by joining hands with one of the parties. Four, in that situation, priority will be given to the cooperation of communist and left-wing forces for the protection of national independence, the constitution, and democracy, and for the benefit of the overall Nepali communist movement. Cooperation or forming a front with anyone else against the left-wing forces will not be done. This is a decision of the party's central coordination committee meeting held some time ago.

Therefore, let us not do anything that will strengthen external plans against national independence, support national surrenderism, oppose the constitution and democracy, support regressive reactionism, and support anti-communist strategic plans against the overall Nepali communist movement. We are currently in a situation where national independence, the constitution, and democracy, and the Nepali communist movement are going through a serious crisis. In such a situation, we need to take every step consciously, seriously embracing the responsibility entrusted to us by history. Let us learn from past mistakes, and not repeat those same mistakes. Let us not allow the plans of external power centers to succeed, national independence to be undermined, and the Nepali communist and left-wing movement to be further weakened and pushed towards dissolution or disintegration. Let everyone be mindful in time.