KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 23
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Madhav Kumar Nepal and Pushpa Kamal Dahal today removed KP Sharma Oli as Parliamentary Party leader, replacing him with Dahal.
A meeting of the NCP Parliamentary Party agreed to Nepal’s proposal to appoint Dahal as the Parliamentary Party leader.
File – Prime Minister and Chair of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) KP Sharma Oli, former Prime Minister (centre), party Co-Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal (second from left) and Madhav Kumar Nepal (second from right) along with other leaders attend a programme organised to mark the 26th Madan-Ashrit Memorial Day, also the 1st anniversary of party unification between the then CPN (UML) and CPN Maoist Centre, at Madannagar, Balkhu, in Kathmandu, on Friday, May 17, 2019. Photo: RSS
Nepal was elected the party co-chair yesterday at the Central Committee replacing Oli, who was removed by the committee for recommending dissolution of the House of Representatives and violating party norms and the constitution.
NCP leader Dev Prasad Gurung, who was the party’s chief whip in the dissolved HoR, told mediapersons today that 115 party lawmakers — most from the dissolved HoR and some from the National Assembly — were present in today’s Parliamentary Party meeting.
In response to a journalist’s query, Gurung said the constitution did not envisage the dissolution of the HoR by a majority government. The House can only be dissolved if no party gets a majority and no coalition government is formed. He hoped that the Supreme Court would uphold the constitutional spirit while interpreting the constitution.
Meanwhile, the Dahal/Nepal faction submitted signatures of 290 Central Committee members, including electronic signatures of three CC members who were not able to come to Kathmandu due to personal reasons, said NCP Standing Committee member Lilamani Pokharel.
He said his faction had absolute majority in the CC and the Election Commission should deem it the authentic NCP.
Spokesperson for the Election Commission Raj Kumar Shrestha said the poll body would decide which faction was the authentic NCP on the basis of the party’s statute, documents and Political Party Act. Asked when the EC would take the decision, Shrestha said the decision would be taken before the process of registering the parties for the mid-term polls would start. He added that the EC was preparing to finalise the mid-term election schedule.
The NCP, which had 173 members in the dissolved 275-member House of Representatives, was formed by the merger of CPN-UML and CPN- MC on 17 May 2018.
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