Senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), K.P. Sharma Oli Wednesday expressed his adamancy to run the party under the presidential system, a post that has fallen vacant in the party after the death of veteran party leader Manmohan Adhikari three years back.

Oli’s proposal to run the party under the presidential system was rejected by majority of the central committee members recently. Oli has claimed that the party needs to be made more democratic by devolving the power centered on the general secretary.

He said he would continue to raise the issue of presidential system at the seventh general convention. Oli has charged the incumbent General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal of incompetence and has claimed that he should step down from the post at the seventh General Convention of the party to be held in Janakpur in the first week of February.

He however has not disclosed whether or not he would contest for the coveted post of general secretary. Speaking at the face-to-face programme organized by the Reporters’ Club in the capital Wednesday, Oli charged Nepal of undermining his views in the political and organizational report, which he submitted recently.

He said just because he had opposed the style of functioning in the party, Nepal had no rights to put aside his views.