KATHMANDU: Beleaguered Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said on Wednesday that he is “tired of making deals” with the rival. faction leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda‘and accused him of raping various agreements reached between them repeatedly to maintain the fault Communist Party of Nepalthe unit intact.
Oli’s comments came hours after a four-member Chinese delegation led by the vice minister of the government’s International Department Communist Party of China (CPC) Guo Yezhou returned home without much success in his mission to fix the differences between the fighting in Nepal leaders.
Nepal plunged into political crisis on December 20 after Oli, known for his pro-Beijing leanings, in a surprise move, recommended dissolving the 275-member House, amid a power struggle with Prachanda.
Acting on the recommendation of the prime minister, President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the House on the same day and announced new elections on April 30 and May 10, prompting protests from a large part of the CPN led by Prachanda, also a co-chair of the party. ruler. .
Addressing the party leaders and cadres of his faction in Kathmandu, Oli criticized the leaders of the rival faction for their lack of cooperation in running the party and the government during the last two years since he came to power. My republic reported the newspaper.
Oli, who is also chairman of a faction of the PCN, accused Prachanda of violating various agreements reached between them on multiple occasions to keep the party’s unity intact, he said.
“In fact, Prachandaji was negotiating with the Nepalese Congress to form a government and at the same time he was negotiating with me even though we (two communist parties) won the elections after forging an electoral alliance, ”said Oli.
“I’m tired of making deals with Dahal (Prachanda),” Oli said, adding that he had reached several agreements with the former prime minister to keep the party’s unity intact.
The CPN-UML led by Oli and the NCP (Maoist Center) led by Prachanda merged in May 2018 to form a unified Communist Party of Nepal following the victory of their alliance in the 2017 general elections.
Oli urged Prachanda to renounce the policy of treason, according to the report.
Maintaining that there is no constitutional provision to reinstate Parliament, Oli said he was forced to dissolve the House after learning that the Prachanda-led faction planned to file a no-confidence motion against him and introduce a impeachment motion against President Bidya Devi Bhandari in Parliament.
Condemning the dissolution of Parliament, the rival faction of the NCP organized a massive protest rally on Tuesday.
Addressing the rally, Prachanda had said that Oli’s move to dissolve the House of Representatives is aimed at killing the federalism and republicanism that were achieved after decades of struggle by the people.
Nepal’s Supreme Court issued a good cause notice to the Oli-led government on Friday, asking it to provide written clarification on its decision to abruptly dissolve Parliament.
The five-member constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana requested the government to submit an original copy of the recommendations made by him to dissolve the Chamber and the decision taken by the president to authenticate the government’s recommendations within the 10 days.
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