The faction of CPN Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Senior Leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has decided to remove Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli from CPN chairmanship.
A meeting of the standing committee members of the faction held Tuesday has decided to remove Oli and replace him with Nepal as CPN chairman, according to a standing committee member of the faction.
The standing committee decision will be endorsed by the central committee meeting that started a short time ago.
The statute of CPN, formed after unification of the then CPN-UML led by Oli and CPN (Maoist Center) by Dahal, has provision for two chairmen. Oli and Dahal were chairmen until now.