KATHMANDU, July 12: The warring factions of the Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (MPRF) failed to settle the 37-day long dispute in the party through mutual consultations in the presence of the Election Commission officials. [break]
The EC had called the factions led by MPRF Chairman Upendra Yadav and its parliamentary leader Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar for consultations on the dispute that appeared in the party after Gachchhadar joined the government and Yadav expelled seven leaders from the party.
“As majority central committee members are in my support, the EC should recognize us as being official MPRF. But they did not accept our claim,” said Gachchhadar after the meeting.
JP Gupta from the Yadav faction said the consultations failed to settle the dispute as the Gachchhadar faction did not agree to give up its claim of being official MPRF.
The EC will now go for the next legal step to settle the row. It will ask the factions to furnish evidences to support their claims of being official MPRF, said Acting Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety.
In the meantime, MPRF central committee member Ram Lal Sutiyar also signed in support of the Gachchhadar-faction, bringing the number of the central committee members to his support to 19, which is a clear majority in the 35-member central committee that existed before the factions took separate paths on June 5.
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