By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Dec. 24: Deputy Prime Minister and Secretariat member of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Ishwar Pokhrel has asked party leaders and cadres to be prepared for the upcoming mid-term elections.
Stating that the government had been negatively portrayed by the party insiders, DPM Pokhrel asked party leaders to reach the public by clarifying all the misunderstandings.
Addressing the party’s Bagmati provincial gathering here on Wednesday, DPM Pokhrel said, “There should be no doubt about the election. So stand together with the people.”
Likewise, NCP General Secretary Bishnu Paudel claimed that the House of Representatives (HoR) would not be reinstated.
Addressing the party’s Lumbini provincial gathering here, Paudel directed the party leaders and cadres to prepare for new elections.
Paper of baseless accusation against party chairman KP Sharma Oli by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ was the main reason behind the party split, he said.
The faction-led by Prime Minister Oli had organised orientation for the newly nominated central committee members of all provinces separately in Kathmandu.
The central committee meeting chaired by PM Oli on Tuesday decided to conduct the orientation programmes for the leaders and cadres of all seven provinces.
The meeting had given responsibility to the senior party leaders to conduct the orientation.
PM’s Press Advisor Surya Thapa informed that Deputy Prime Minister and party Secretariat member Pokhrel, party leaders Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Minister Padma Aryal conducted the programme for the cadres of Bagmati Province.
Similarly, Lekhraj Bhatta, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, party leaders Karna Bahadur Thapa and Dr. Binda Pandey conducted orientation for Sudurpaschim Province.
NCP Secretary Paudel, Chief Minister of Lumbini Shanker Pokharel, party leaders Manichandra Thapa and Goma Devkota conducted the orientation for the cadres of Lumbini.
Likewise, Prithvi Subba Gurung, Kiran Gurung and Sita Poudel conducted orientation for Gandaki leaders and cadres while Subash Chandra Nembang, Minister Gyawali, Mani Chandra Thapa and Dr. Shiva Maya Thumbahamphe conducted the orientation of Province 1.