Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered a high-level team of Communist Party officials to travel to Kathmandu to prevent the Communist Party of Nepal from splintering. President Xi’s decision to bring the four-member team to Kathmandu comes after an emergency message from Ambassador Hou Yanqi, who had been unsuccessful in her attempts to prevent key players from the Communist Party of Nepal (PNC) they will pull the match in different directions. people familiar with the matter said.
The team led by Guo Yechau, vice minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will land in Kathmandu on Sunday and are scheduled to spend the next four days in the Himalayan nation.
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According to Kathmandu-based sources, Ambassador Hou has already scheduled his meetings with prominent Nepalese ruling party actors from both sides.
However, it is not yet clear whether Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who had previously rejected Ambassador Hou’s requests to meet with her, would meet with the Chinese delegation. The chances that Prime Minister Oli, who has assumed a strong Nepalese nationalist role, will meet with the visiting delegation are slim. He has already told Ambassador Hou that China must not interfere in Nepal’s internal affairs, as the legal challenge to the decision to dissolve Parliament is already before the Supreme Court.
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An observer from Nepal said that the ambassador had been in contact with Prime Minister Oli’s camp, but had not been able to communicate with the prime minister. He has had more than one meeting with Prachanda, the last one on Thursday of last week.
Last Sunday, Prime Minister Oli had surprised his detractors within the party and the Communist Party of China when he dissolved Parliament amid a protracted power struggle between him and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ within the governing administration.
Prime Minister Oli, who also got President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to sign his cabinet’s recommendation to hold parliamentary elections on April 30 and May 10, told the country in a televised speech that his rivals within the party would not let him down. they had stopped working and he had planned to move a vote of no confidence against it.
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Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and PM Oli have been co-chairs of the Communist Party of Nepal formed in 2018 by the merger of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist Unified) of PM Oli and the Communist Party of Nepal-Prachanda Maoist Center.
India has taken a hands-off approach to developments in the neighborhood, saying it is an internal matter that should be handled in accordance with the country’s democratic processes.
“As a neighbor and supporter, India will continue to support Nepal and its people to move forward on the path of peace, prosperity and development,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said at a conference on Thursday. press.
However, China has been determined to avoid a split in the ruling Communist Party and has intervened more than once this year to design a patch between Prime Minister Oli and Prachanda, his main rival in the ruling Communist Party of Nepal.
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Diplomats in Kathmandu who have been following political developments said the Chinese team is expected to focus on the leaders of both factions who are in favor of the PNC sticking together regardless of changes that may be necessary to achieve this goal.
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