Senior NCP Leader Jhalanath Khanal Warns Against Unholy Alliances in New Political Equations

Kathmandu. Nepal Communist Party (NCP) senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has said that there should be no unholy alliances amidst discussions of new political equations forming in the provinces and the NCP also being involved in them. 

Issuing a statement on Sunday, leader Khanal emphasized that in the current complex situation, the Nepali Communist Party should convene a meeting of the Central Coordination Committee before thinking about any new political equations. 

'In this complex situation, before the Nepali Communist Party thinks about any new political equation, at least let a meeting of the Central Coordination Committee be called,' Khanal said, 'Let's have a detailed discussion in the committee about the needs of today, and let policy decisions regarding forming a government in the provincial assembly be made only by prioritizing revolutionary objectives and class perspective.' 

Khanal, who is also a former Prime Minister, stated that the party must be institutionally saved from falling into the quagmire of right-wing class compromise, and that the tendency to form alliances solely for the chair-lust and self-gratification of some leaders should be stopped, and the general public should be moved forward in the direction of revolutionary change. 

'We, all communists and leftists in Nepal, must understand – this is not the time for alliances, but the time to reorganize and transform the party based on the correct working line,' Khanal said. 

Khanal stated that contrary to the hope of the general public that the country's burning problems would move towards solutions after the formation of a new government under the leadership of Balen Shah, the country's nationality, national independence, livelihoods, and relations with neighboring countries have started to falter. 

'As the working people are being forced to jump into rivers and commit suicide, the public wants to see patriotic, democratic, leftist, socialist, and progressive forces uniting against foreign interference and growing domestic chaos,' he said. 

'For that, the public wants to see the leftists abandoning their personal demands, prejudices, arrogance, and pride and initiating leftist unity,' Khanal said, 'But the leftists in Nepal have historically found pleasure in uniting with right-wing forces based on policy-less, class-perspective-less, and vested factional interests.' 

Stating that the Nepali Communist Party has also been making similar mistakes, Khanal said that there is a danger of further tarnishing the prestige of the Communist Party by making the same mistake again and forming alliances with right-wing forces.