CPN-UML Internal Dispute Over Election Defeat Review and Party Reorganization

Kathmandu. A dispute has arisen among the top leadership of the CPN (UML) regarding the review of electoral defeat and party reorganization. Vice-Chairman Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ has raised serious theoretical and political questions about the thinking and intentions of General Secretary Shankar Pokharel, fully defending party chairman KP Sharma Oli. Badal has rejected the draft report on electoral defeat review and party reorganization prepared by General Secretary Pokharel, and in his new 39-page report, has termed Pokharel’s proposals as a ‘conspiracy to displace the chairman’ and ‘right-wing deviation’.In the report titled ‘CPN (UML)’s Common Resolve for Party Strengthening, Transformation, and Renaissance’,...