The meeting was supposed to discuss the ways to manage the growing dissent within the party.
Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya and General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa faction were absent, while other leaders of the hard-line faction were outside the valley.
The party hardliners led by Baidya have been launching severe criticism against Prime Minister Babauram Bhattarai and Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal for handing over of the keys of the weapons containers to the Special Committee, and signing the four-point deal with the Madhes-based parties.
"The standing committee meeting is not necessary as the party has already decided to hold Central Committee (CC) meeting," Netra Bikram Chand, who is close to Baidya faction, told Republica. He said he was in Butawal and just arrived in Kathmandu in the evening.
The party had called a CC meeting for September 30, but it was postponed indefinitely.
Amik Sherchan said that the meeting was called to fix the date of upcoming CC meeting and to discuss on some issues like the controversy remark of the defense minister Sharat Singh Bhandari.
"We could not hold a meeting as some comrades was outside the valley," Sherchan told Republica.
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