Five members of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat who had given Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli till today to call the Secretariat meeting will devise a new strategy as the PM did not call the meeting. Indications are that they will call the meeting on their own.

NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha said he and four other members of the Secretariat — NCP Cochair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhalanath Khanal, and Bamdev Gautam — had written a letter to the PM seeking his consent for calling the Secretariat meeting. But the PM has so far refused to call the Secretariat meeting anytime soon, saying a meeting will be called only when there are issues to discuss. The five leaders have accused the PM of acting unilaterally by defying the party’s Standing Committee’s decisions. The NCP faction led by Dahal has also accused Oli of inciting party lawmakers in Karnali Province to register a notrust motion against Chief Minister Mahendra Bahadur Shahi.

Oli, who met Madhav Kumar Nepal yesterday, called NCP task force members today to discuss the present political scenario, but the meeting could not take place as two members of the task force — Janardan Sharma and Pampha Bhusal — had ‘a busy schedule’ and ruled out meeting the PM.

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