Kathmandu: Amid the political turmoil in Nepal, the ruling communist party executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said on Sunday that any attempt from anywhere to weaken the party unity would not be in favour of the people and hurt the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and natural disasters.
Addressing a meeting of the District Disaster Management Committee, Chitwan, Prachanda said that the political activities should not affect the government’s response to corona crisis and natural disasters.
“Any attempt from anywhere else to weaken the party unity would not be in favour of the people,” Prachanda was quoted as saying by The Rising Nepal.
He urged the entire political parties, civil society, media and one and all to engage in a combined battle against the COVID-19 crisis and natural disasters.
Top Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leaders, including ‘Prachanda’, have demanded Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s resignation, saying his recent anti-India remarks were “neither politically correct nor diplomatically appropriate.”
Oli and Prachanda have held over half a dozen one-on-one meetings in recent days, but the two leaders are nowhere close to a power-sharing deal.
Meanwhile, the ruling party is divided on one-on-one talks between Oli and Prachanda, with a senior party leader saying that prolonging the issues will not serve anybody’s interest.
The meeting of the NCP’s 45-member powerful Standing Committee to decide Oli’s fate was scheduled to be held on Friday. But it was postponed for a week at the last moment, citing floods and landslides that killed at least 22 people.
NCP leader Asta Laxmi Shakya said it was okay for the party to postpone the crucial Standing Committee meeting for a week, keeping in mind the risk of extreme weather, but Oli should be ready to settle these issues after seven days. (PTI)
