Prime Minister (PM) and CPN Chairman KP Sharma Oli and fellow Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have discussed the proposals to take to the upcoming standing committee meeting.
"The two chairmen discussed the proposal to take to the standing committee," a source told Setopati about the meeting at Baluwatar on Tuesday. "A report for the standing committee meeting scheduled for Thursday was not prepared but they discussed how to take the proposals and what issues to include."
The two leaders also had a meeting. The party has called secretariat meeting on Wednesday to prepare for the standing committee meeting.
Oli and Dahal are reportedly discussing to take a joint proposal to the standing committee in accordance to the latest agreement.
The intra-party dispute in ruling CPN was seen to have been settled on Saturday through a decision to take Vice-chairman Bam Dev Gautam to the House of Representatives (HoR). But the real truce happened between Oli and Dahal, it has since been revealed
Dahal, who had vehemently criticized Oli and demanded his resignation during the secretariat meeting on Wednesday, made an about turn during the Saturday meeting without knowledge of senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal with whom Dahal had allied to oust Oli.
Oli had reached similar agreement with Dahal even on November 20, 2019 to break the Dahal-Nepal alliance against him. But the language was not clear then.
The party formed after unification of the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) had made both Oli and Dahal chairmen. But Oli was ranked top and wielded the executive rights.
The party continued to have two chairmen and the previous ranking remained but Dahal was to lead the party and Oli the government as per the November agreement. "The party meetings will be jointly chaired but Dahal will generally chair party meetings and operate the party," the agreement read.
The two co-chaired a few meetings but Oli continued to singularly chair meetings as internal dispute escalated capitalizing on lack of specific language in the agreement.
CPN sources now claim that the latest agreement will be specific and the mutual trust between the chairmen has also increased.
The major grievance of Dahal was also about unilateral operation of the government and appointments by Oli. He was said to be particularly aggrieved by Oli's decision to recall envoy to China Leela Mani Paudel who was appointed by the coalition government of Maoists and Nepali Congress (NC) led by Dahal.
The two leaders have also decided to discuss and forge consensus even on issues related to governance.
