Kathmandu: Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and ruling party chief executive Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda met again on Thursday to resolve their differences and resolve the gap within the party, and sources here expect a breakthrough soon.
The two leaders met one on one at the Prime Minister’s residence at Baluwatar in Kathmandu. This was their first meeting after a week.
Details of the meeting have not been disclosed. Sources close to the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (PNC) said the conversation ended on a positive note.
The sources said that as Prime Minister Oli agreed to hand over full command of the party to Prachanda during the meeting, an agreement could be closer. The leaders are also expected to meet on Friday.
Oli, during a television interview on Wednesday, said that the ongoing contest within the party will be resolved in five days.
Oli and Prachanda have held at least ten meetings in recent weeks to resolve differences between them. But, as the Prime Minister did not accept the single-seat condition, the talks fell through. Oli has refused to resign from his post as prime minister and co-chair of the PNC.
A bitter internal dispute has been brewing in the ruling PNC since recent weeks after top party leaders, including Prachanda, demanded Oli’s resignation, saying his recent remarks against India were “neither politically correct nor diplomatically correct. appropriate “. They are also against Oli’s autocratic style of operation.
The differences grew even further after Oli said that some of the ruling party leaders are aligning with the southern neighbor to remove him from power after his government issued a new political map incorporating three Indian territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh, and Clean up.
The two leaders are also committed to strengthening their control within the party with the escalation of the dispute within the party.
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