The Deuba-aligned central leaders held a meeting at the former´s residence at Budhanilkantha on Tuesday to discuss party President Sushil Koirala´s plan of dissolving the party´s sister organizations and their boycott of the central committee meeting on Sunday. [break]Deuba was not present at the meeting on Sunday as he was out of the country.
As Koirala floated the proposal during the last central committee meeting on Sunday, the central leaders close to Deuba had boycotted the meeting.
“He [Deuba] will hold serious talks with the party president on the latter´s plan to dissolve the party´s sisters organizations before the next central committee meeting on Friday,” said Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat.
The NC is currently embroiled in a conflict over the dissolution of party´s sister organizations. Koirala has proposed dissolution of the sister organizations and formation of committees to hold fresh general convention. But the Deuba faction has opposed the plan, saying sister organizations should be allowed to hold general conventions on their own and the party should not intervene in their affairs and instead focus on national issues like constitution writing and peace process.
Mahat said the meeting concluded that it was not an opportune time for the party to be engaged in trivial issues like dissolution of party´s sister organizations.
“We concluded that the party should focus on national issues at the moment,” added Gopal Man Singh Shrestha, who also participated in the meeting at the Deuba´s residence.
Apart from central leaders close to Deuba, Kul Bahadur Gurung, Arjun Narsingh KC and Binaya Dhoj Chand were also present at the meeting.
“We decided to take initiatives to resolve the dispute over dissolution of the party´s sister organizations through discussions between the two leaders [Koirala and Deuba],” Chand told Republica.
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