CPN Province 2 chairman Prabhu Sah, secretary Suman Pyakurel and party incharge in eight districts of the province have demanded inquiry against senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal and another leader Matrika Yadav.
They have accused the two leaders of abetting cadres to attack on the party's own programs and fomenting internal conflict in the party. Sah and Pyakurel are close to CPN Chairmen KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The leaders met Dahal and General Secretary Bishnu Paudel and also reported about other leaders of Nepal-Yadav faction, according to a CPN leader from the province.
The leader claimed that they have demanded removal of central members from Nepal faction Gopal Thakur and Jagat Yadav, and to warn Til Prasad Sah and Ram Chandra Jha in the report submitted to Dahal. Leaders from Oli and Dahal factions accuse the Nepal-Yadav faction of disrupting the swearing-in ceremony, manhandling leaders, and chanting slogans and organizing programs against the party decision.
The Nepal-Yadav faction, on the other hand, accuse the Oli, Dahal factions of prioritizing individuals close to them than active cadres and leaders. Sixteen central members from the province on September 17 had submitted a letter demanding action against Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Raghubir Mahaseth, the party chief in the province Prabhu Sah and other leaders. Deputy incharge of the party in the province and central member Nagendra Chaudhary, and 15 other central members including Mahendra Paswan, Ram Chandra Jha, Gopal Thakur, Ram Chandra Yadav, Sri Prasad Sah, Ratneshwore Goit Yadav, Ram Kumar Sharma, Mamata Giri, Sarala Yadav, Dinesh Rai, Jagat Prasad Yadav, Shatrughan Mahato, Bodh Maya Yadav and Rabindra Baitha had written to the party secretariat demanding action against those violating the party statute, intra-party instruction and circulars, and the party be operated in accordance to due procedure and discipline.
They demanded the party chairman in the province Sah, incharge Satya Narayan Mandal, deputy incharge Bishwo Nath Sah and secretary Suman Pyakurel be dismissed and stringent action taken against them for creating uneasy situation by holding oath-taking ceremony violating the circular of party's central committee. They also demanded Minister Mahaseth be removed from the standing committee for violating article 34(b) of the party's interim statute.
They called for removal of some of the leaders nominated in the provincial committee and inclusion of other senior and competent leaders. They also demanded revocation of nomination of unqualified members in all the district committees in the province against the article 36(b) of the party's interim statute and special circular (a) of the party, and nomination of senior and qualified leaders, and immediate stopping of illegal formation of committees under the district committees.
