China is trying to take advantage of the rift in Nepal's Communist Party, Chinese Ambassador meets PM Oli

Posted on 18th Nov 2020 by rohit kumar

Amid the growing rift within the Nepal Communist Party, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yankee met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli late Tuesday evening and held talks for about two hours. This has been confirmed by sources inside the PM's residence and the secretariat. An official of the PM secretariat told news agency ANI on condition of anonymity, "The Chinese ambassador was here late yesterday evening and discussed with Prime Minister Oli for about two hours. Of. "

 

Another source said that Yankee and Ollie discussed how to resolve the issues going on inside the party. A source told ANI about the meeting, "They discussed the affairs of the party to maintain the party. Ambassador Yankee insisted on continuing the dialogue to resolve disputes and reach a consensus."

 

The discontent within the ruling Nepal Communist Party has once again come to the fore. There is no consensus on the party meeting on Wednesday afternoon. Oli has sent a proposal to Pushp Kamal Dahal to postpone the meeting, while Dahal has made up his mind to meet later in the afternoon.

 

Five members of the nine-member secretariat of the ruling NCP namely Dahal, Madhav Nepal, Jhal Nath Khanal, Bamdev Gautam, and Narayan Qazi are pushing for a superior meeting. Meanwhile, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli with Bishnu Podel, Ishwar Pokharel, and Ram Bahadur Thapa are set to postpone the meeting.

 

KP Sharma Oli has called a cabinet meeting to postpone the meeting. A minister in the Oli-led cabinet said, "I have been informed to attend the cabinet meeting before 1 pm today. The meeting could not take place to attend the cabinet meeting."

 

Oli attempted to cancel the secretariat meeting on Wednesday, for which he sent Bishnu Pudel to convince Dahal and withdraw his political document. In the last meeting of the secretariat, Dahal submitted a document where he had termed Oli's activities as unforgivable and again demanded his resignation from both the posts, terming him unfit for the post.

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