Kathmandu : CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli said that he was ready to return to the structure before 2075 BS. A meeting of the General Convention Organizing Committee held in Baluwatar on Wednesday has returned the UML till Phagun 28, 2077 BS. However, the Madhav Nepal faction has been making it a condition to return on 2 Jesth 2075.

A meeting of the UML’s 10th general convention organizing committee chaired by Oli in Baluwatar has decided to include 20 former CPN-MC members in the central committee. Similarly, the organizing committee has decided to make four former Maoist leaders including Rambahadur Thapa members of the standing committee. This is the structure of the UML formed by the meeting of the Oli group held on Phagun 28,2077 BS. The Nepali group has been demanding the repeal of the decisions of 28 Phagun 2077.

The Central Committee of the CPN (UML) had 241 members. A meeting of the General Convention Organizing Committee held in Baluwatar on Wednesday appointed 20 former CPN (Maoist center) leaders i in the central committee and made the UML central committee 261 members.

A meeting of the Oli faction has decided to make former Maoist leaders Ram Bahadur Thapa, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatt and Mani Thapa members of the standing committee. Similarly, the Baluwatar meeting has decided to nominate Bishnu Rimal, Raghuvir Mahaseth, Beduram Bhusal and Raghuji Pant, who were not members of the standing committee in the former UML but were promoted to the standing committee after the unification of the party.

Similarly, the UML has decided to make 20 of the 23 leaders nominated by the Badal group as central members in the party’s central committee on Phagun 28.

The meeting held in Baluwatar on Phagun 28 was attended by former Maoist leaders Ram Bahadur Thapa, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatt, Manichandra Thapa, Prabhu Sah, Tanka Angbohang, Pasang Sherpa, Jwala Sah, Tek Bahadur Balampaki, Kamal Chaulagain, Manoj Jung Thapa, Vishamlal Adhikari Danuwar, Lil Bahadur Thapa Magar and Dadhi Ram. Neupane, Girdhari Lal Neupane, Dinesh Panthi, Navin Roka Magar, Dharmaraj Regmi, Gauri Shankar Tharu, Jhapat Bohara, Dawa Lama, Chandra Bahadur Khadka and Ram Chandra Mandal were nominated to the Central Committee.

Wednesday’s meeting again decided to keep him in the central committee. However, as three of them are not in the CPN (Maoist) Central Committee, only 20 of them are eligible for the Central Committee. Three have left the Central Committee. Dharmaraj Regmi, Gauri Shankar Tharu and Jhapat Bohara are among those who will be dropped from the Central Committee.

Explaining the decision taken by the Baluwatar meeting on Wednesday, UML spokesperson Pradip Gyawali said, “Our criteria is to keep the members of the CPN standing committee in the standing committee and to keep the members in the central committee of the CPN in the central committee.”

Objection of Madhav group

Leaders of the Madhav Nepal group, however, objected to the illegal organizing committee saying that it did not have the right to add standing committee members and central members. Leader of Madhav Nepal Group Ghanshyam Bhusal says that the decision made by the General Convention Organizing Committee is illegal.

“It is not up to the convention organizing committee to decide who will be on the standing committee and who will be on the central committee,” said Bhusal.

Bhusal further says, “The decision on whether or not to include former Maoist leaders in the committee should be taken by the Central Committee before 2 Jeshth. The illegal organizing committee cannot make such a decision.”

Leader Bhusal said that the party has not been able to be sincere towards unity even after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli became exhausted.

UML leader Ashtalakshmi Shakya responded that KP Oli was walking in the opposite direction. “Wednesday’s decision shows that KP Oli is against unity,” she said. ‘

Similarly, Rajendra Kumar Rai, a young leader of Madhav’s faction, also sang a song of party unity in the meeting held in Baluwatar on Wednesday. Rai said, “Looking at today’s decision and activities, it seems that we are not ready to return in 2 Jeshth, so we will not participate in Friday’s meeting.”