The secretariat of the ruling CPN has decided to meet the members of the task force formed to prepare the proposal for organizational unification on Thursday.
The task force formed by the standing committee could not agree on the organizational structure and submitted a report to the secretariat, instead of the standing committee, including the issues that have been agreed upon and those that have not been.
"We have decided to hold discussion with all the task force members of Thrusday," CPN Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha said after the secretariat meeting held at the prime minister's official residence in Baluwatar Monday.
Coordinator of the task force Ram Bahadur Thapa and member Bishnu Paudel have the same position but the majority of members have put a different opinion on the report prepared by Thapa.
The members have been threatening that they will prepare a separate report and present it in the standing committee meeting. Barsh Man Pun, Surendra Pandey, Yogesh Bhattarai, Beduram Bhusal and Lekh Raj Bhatta during the task force meeting on February 7 threatened to submit a separate report.
"Efforts are being made to send a message that the task force has failed," Pun had said during the meeting.
Other members in the task force Shankar Pokharel and Raghubir Mahaseth were not present during the meeting and Paudel was the only one to support Thapa.
"The task force was formed by the standing committee and the secretariat cannot dissolve it. They are trying to tag it as a failure without even holding discussions," a task force member had told Setopati.
The previous task force meeting on January 21 had agreed on the issue of amending the party statute. But there was dispute about whether the task force can recommend about changing the members in provincial committees. Coordinator Thapa had stopped the meeting after that.
Members from the Madhav Nepal faction during the meeting were firm that the party should move forward as per the principle of one person, one post, and recommended that the provincial committees should be changed accordingly.
They argued that Chief Minister of Province 5 Shankar Pokharel should resign from the post of province coordinator. But Pokharel has already told the standing committee that he would rather resign from CM than relinquish the political responsibility.
The meeting could not take a decision once the issue of organizational changes was discussed. The Nepal faction has accused Pokharel of recommending only the leaders from his faction in the district committees when he was in the unification task force before he was appointed the province coordinator. The issue again entered the task force.
The standing committee had formed the task force under Thapa on December 28, 2018 to submit a proposal about organizational unification of the party and to resolve the discrepancies in the provincial committees within 15 days.
The task force failed to even enter the issue of district committees after failing to agree on the issue of provincial committees.
