"There is no point in holding a CC meeting without settling other important issues," Maoist leader Netra Bikram Chand quoted Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, who leads the radical camp in the party, as telling Dahal during a meeting on Wednesday.[break]
As per the decisions of the two-day meeting of the leaders from the party establishment, Dahal had decided to request Baidya to settle the dispute in a CC meeting, but Baidya rejected the proposal outright.
At the meeting at Dahal´s residence in Lazimpat, Baidya and Chand had criticized Dahal for not implementing the decisions of the last CC meeting to dissolve the government led by Baburam Bhattarai and formulate mass mobilization programs to formulate a "pro-people" constitution.
"I am not sure how things will move ahead. We are still discussing the issues," Chand said, adding that the chairman should first implement the decisions of the last CC meeting.
The dispute between the hardliners and the moderates has reached a peak in the UCPN (Maoist) with both the factions holding separate meetings.
With the constitution drafting deadline approaching fast, Dahal is hard-pressed to make compromises on peace and constitution drafting process. And that has soured the relations between Dahal and Baidya, who is against surrendering to parliamentary forces at the cost of the party´s ideological goals.
The two day meeting of the party establishment had decided to hold a formal CC meeting to take decisions on the peace and constitution drafting process even if the hardliners don´t participate. The hardliners had also held a separate meeting a few days back and announced public protests to topple the government.
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