Kathmandu: The current session of the parliament has come to end as the government has made the reinstated parliament without a any business. Finance Minister Janardan Sharma had issued an economic white paper saying that the budget brought by the previous Oli government would be changed through a replacement bill. Now that is not going to happen.
Deuba, who has not been able to expand the cabinet even a month after the formation of the government, has started homework to bring an ordinance on political parties to split the UML and allow the Mahanta Thakur faction to form a legal party.

Confirming this, a government minister said that preparations are being made to bring the ordinance within two days. According to the final agreement reached between Prime Minister Deuba, CPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and UML rebel leader Madhav Nepal, the government has decided to bring the ordinance by making the existing legal hurdles for party split flexible.

The government is going to bring the ordinance targeting the Nepal faction of UML and the Thakur faction of JSP, which have reached the mentality of separate party registration. The Thakur faction, led by Upendra Yadav, has been seeking legal recourse to split the party.

“The government is going to amend the law as per the need through an ordinance as there will be no party unity with oil and Nepal and there will be legal hurdles to conduct separate political activities,” said a source close to the prime minister.

The current ruling parties, which had strongly opposed the the then KP Oi government bringing an ordinance related to the division of political parties, but now Deuba coalition have started following Oli’s bitter path.

The then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had brought the ordinance on April 25, 2020, with the aim of splitting the then Samajwadi Party led by Upendra Yadav. According to sources close to Oli, at that time, Oli had planned to form the UML by splitting the CPN. To thwart Oli’s plan, Prachanda , Nepal and others forced the then Prime Minister Oli to withdraw the ordinance.

And if at least 40 percent of the members of the parliamentary parties in the federal parliament form a separate party or join another party or form a new party with such members, the members of such parliamentary party will not be considered to have left the party.

The ‘Central Committee and Federal parliament’ in the Act The government is trying to amend the term ‘at least 40 percent of the parliamentary parties’. The then Prime Minister Oli had added the Central Working Committee elected from the General Convention in the place called ‘Central Committee only’ and had issued the ordinance by adding ‘or’ in place of ‘and’.
But Deuba is one step ahead of that and is preparing to bring an ordinance with 25 to 30 percent instead of 40 percent.

Twenty-five years ago, the then UML split under the same plan. At that time, most of the RPP and Tarai-centric parties were divided. Deuba had split the Nepali Congress due to the Congress’ own struggle.
Even now, under Deuba’s leadership, the UML and Madhesh-centric parties are trying to legitimize the split.
UML Chairman KP Oli has expressed his indignation saying that Deuba is about to split his party. In a two-page statement issued at midnight on Monday, Oli protested that the UML was about to split by ending the parliamentary session.