The rival camp led by former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and KP Sharma Oli are confident that they have the necessary numbers in the party committees to endorse the line of national consensus government. A party leader belonging to the camp said a formal proposal will be tabled at the upcoming CC meeting. [break]
"Our party chairman may remain in power if he can turn his government into a broad-based consensus coalition; otherwise, he should step down and pave the way for a national consensus government," the leader said.
The Nepal-Oli camp has entrusted a group of three party leaders -- General Secretary Ishwar Pokharel, former home minister Bhim Rawal and Politburo member Pradeep Gyawali -- to chalk out stretegy in this connection.
According to an UML leader, the Nepal-Oli camp is preparing to level four serious allegations against the prime minister: He signed the seven-point agreement with the Maoists without informing the party; handed over the home ministry to the Maoist party against the party decision; nominated UML ministers without consulting the party and unilterally registered a bill in the parliament secretariat to extend the CA without holding consultations with other parties and within the UML.
The Politburo meeting is scheduled to resume on Sunday and the meeting of the party´s all-powerful body, CC, is scheduled to start from Monday.
The UML leaders are preparing to raise a question of morality against the prime minister.
"A serious moral question will definitely be raised against the prime minister since he is pushing the country toward polarization between the so-called leftists versus other political parties even though he was elected to the top job advocating an agenda of national consensus," said UML Politburo member Prithvi Subba Gurung.
Pressure mounts for PP meeting
A dozen UML lawmakers including some noted leaders have been infuriated as the party´s Chief Whip Bhim Acharya has refrained from convening the UML´s parliamentary party meeting despite their repeated requests.
Pradip Gyawali, Prithivi Subba Gurung, Agni Kharel, Ram Nath Dhakal, Yam Lal Kandel, Chhavilal Bishwakarma, Ravindra Adhikari and Binda Pandey, among others, met Acharya in person on Thursday to suggest to him to call the meeting.
"But we are taken by surprise as the chief whip is dillydallying over convening the meeting even as the government has registered a motion to extend the CA term," Dhakal told Republica. On Thursday, Acharya had committed himself to calling the meeting after consulting the party chairman and prime minister. But to their dismay, they found no progress in this connection when they enquired with him Friday if he had taken those initiatives.
The infuriated leaders have accused the prime minister of trying to evade the meetings instead of taking an institutional decision on a crucial matter.
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