By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, July 4: A one-to-one meeting of the two chairmen of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) held on Friday failed to make any breakthrough in forging consensus to narrow down the latest rift seen in the party.
However, the meeting turned out to be positive, as the two leaders agreed to move ahead according to the mandate set during the unification of the party.
As an effort to sort out the latest differences within the party, party chairmen Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ sat for talks at the PM’s official residence in Baluwatar today.
According to Surya Thapa, PM Oli’s Press Advisor, the two party chairs sat for talks for almost three and a half hours but failed to reach any concrete conclusion.
However, both chairs agreed to resolve all the differences, as per the agreement reached on November 20 last year.
Earlier today, the two leaders had a meeting in the presence of party General Secretary Bishnu Poudel and leader Janardan Sharma.
The two chairs would again sit for talks on Saturday before the standing committee

meeting convenes at 11:00 am, Thapa said.
Amidst the widening intra-party differences, the leaders have been holding series of dialogues since Thursday to forge a consensus.
The two factions of the NCP, one led by Prime Minister and party chair Oli
and the other led by chair Prachanda had meetings to patch up the differences.
After the failure in finding a solution, the future of the ruling party is expected to be decided at the Standing Committee meeting scheduled for Saturday.
On Thursday also, PM Oli and Prachanda had a one-to-one meeting.
Amidst the widening rift in the party, a group of second generation leaders of the NCP took an initiative particularly by Agriculture Minister Ghanshyam Bhusal, to bring the two chairs together for the talks.
Speculating that the present intra-party conflict might lead to split in the party, a group of second generation leaders of the party had met on Friday morning and appealed to the top leaders to sort out the differences and save the party unity.
The second generation leaders have called the leaders for a ceasefire by holding talks to sort out the differences.
The second-rung leaders, including Minister Bhusal, Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai, Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Shanker Pokharel, Janardan Sharma, Surendra Pandey, Barsha Man Pun, Bishnu Rimal, Shakti Basnet and Mani Thapa urged the senior leaders to come up with a solution to avoid the looming crisis in the party.
Leader Mani Thapa said, “The latest rift might lead a split in the party. So the senior leaders should narrow down the differences.”
He said they had called the senior leaders to complete the remaining task of the party unification by making the mandate set during the party unification as a major principle of the party unification.
Leader Surendra Pandey said that the second rung leaders had made a commitment to making individual effort to protect the party unity.
Satyagraha
Meanwhile, a few central committee members of the NCP launched a sit-in (Stayagraha) at the party’s head office Dhumbarahi on Friday, asking the top brass of the party to save the party unity.
During the sit-in, they said the party must run according to the principle, not according to the leaders.
Premal Kumar Khanal of the party said the Satyagraha which was launched on Friday would continue till the two chairs forge consensus and narrow down the ongoing differences.
Central committee members Khanal, Thakur Gaire, Ram Kumari Jhakri, Janak Khatiwada, Rabin Koirala, Himal Sharma and Dil Kumari Panta among others staged the Satyagraha.
According to Khanal, the Satyagraha will begin at 2 pm on Saturday if the Standing Committee members fails to forge a consensus.
Prachanda and some topmost leaders of the party, including Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal have been time and again claiming lack of coordination between the government and the party.
They have also been demanding for a one-man one position system in the party.
The latest intra-party feud surfaced following PM Oli’s remarks accusing the foreign forces conspiring with Nepali political forces to topple his government.
The differences widened further after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to prorogue the budget session of the Parliament without consulting with Speaker and other leaders.
The Prachanda-led faction had asked PM Oli to step down from both posts on the ground that he had failed to provide effective leadership in both the government and the party, which PM denied outright.