UML meeting passes political report, points at differences with King

January 7, 2003
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The central committee meeting of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) Monday unanimously endorsed the political report presented by General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, which has stated that the party’s disagreement in the present political context is with the King.

The report that has received the support of all central committee members has to get the final approval from the party’s seventh general convention to be held in Janakpur from February 1 to February 5.

The party held four of its general conventions during the Panchayat era. The conventions were held secretly as all political parties were banned during those years. The fifth and sixth general conventions were held after the restoration of democracy in 1990. Both the conventions have endorsed “Peoples’ Multiparty Democracy” as the long-term political goal of the party.

Nepal in the organizational and political report presented last Thursday had toned down the party’s differences with the King saying the differences were there but not to a greater degree. The 33 rd central committee meeting however amended Nepal’s statement saying the major political difference that the party had in the present political context was with the King after the Royal Proclamation of October 4.

The report has also stated that all political parties should move ahead together against the Royal Proclamation stating that the King had violated the agreement reached between the major political forces at the time of promulgating the Constitution after the popular movement of 1990.

K.P Sharma Oli, an influential member in the party has emerged as a critique of General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal who has been in the post of General Secretary for eight long years. Oli has been arguing that the party should abandon the system of vesting all power on the General Secretary and should opt for a presidential system where the General Convention elects all Central Committee members and the President.

Though Bamdev Gautam, one of the leaders who led the party to split four years back had also shown differences with Nepal in the beginning he has recently said that he would not like to come in between Nepal and Oli.