The party is also likely to postpone the crucial CC meeting slated for June 22 due to deepening intra-party factionalism and tussles for power.
Sources say party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is making attempts to find a middle ground and take the party ahead in a unified manner despite intra-party cracks. [break]
“Why hold a meeting if that doesn´t lead to a solution? It will be easy to solve some problems by simply postponing them,” said Maoist leader Haribol Gajurel who is close to Dahal.
Gajurel, however, argued that the party would go on implementing the five-point deal reached with other parties, even if the party does not hold a CC meeting.
The Maoist chairman has been trapped between his commitment to other parties to complete the major tasks of the peace process within three months and the serious objection from the party hardliners against the party´s acceptance of the PLA integration model floated by the Nepal Army (NA).
“We are very clear on the issue. The NA´s is a DDR model [demobilization, disarmament and rehabilitation] and we will not accept that,” said Maoist leader Kul Prasad KC from the party hard-line faction.
The party´s hard-line faction, led by Senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya, has argued that making the PLA a non-combat force would amount to surrender, and defied the decision to end the security details being provided to senior party leaders by the PLA, arguing only the CC can take such a decision.
“There is no formal decision on ending the PLA security details. We will abide by the CC decision. The PLA guards would not return to the cantonments just at the whims of the chairman,” said KC.
The faction has put forward three points: 1) formulation of a national security policy; 2) employment of the integrated force for border security; and 3) PLA leadership in the so-called directorate under the NA.
CC member Khagraj Bhatta said that the party is not likely to hold the CC meeting. “Things would be difficult if the problems are not settled even in the CC. So attempts are being made to find a middle ground,” said Bhatta who is close to Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
It is not easy for Dahal to drive the party ahead as per his wish as Baidya and Bhattarai factions have maintained a tactical alliance against Dahal that will reduce the latter to a minority. Dahal is close to Bhattarai on the issue of peace and constitution, while Bhattarai and Baidya have been forging on-and-off alliance to end Dahal´s “monopoly” in the party.
Bhattarai may not support Dahal on all the issues since the latter wants to give continuity to the current government against the former´s wishes.
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