By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Nov. 13 ; Following the repeated requests of senior leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to call the party’s Secretariat meeting, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also the party’s chairman, has agreed to call the meeting for Friday.
The Secretariat meeting is scheduled to be held at 4:00 pm on Friday.
NCP Secretariat member and former Prime Minister Jhalnath Khanal said, “I have been informed that the Secretariat meeting has been called for tomorrow.”
Earlier, Prime Minister Oli had denied to call the Secretariat meeting until the differences emerged within the party were resolved by the two chairmen.
However, co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and four other Secretariat members Khanal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, vice-chair Bam Dev Gautam and party spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha, had insisted to call the meeting at the earliest to settle the intra-party feud.
They had also placed a written request before Prime Minister Oli to call the meeting. They handed over a two-page letter to Prime Minister Oli demanding a meeting of the party Secretariat, discussion on the implementation of the Standing Committee decision and the status of the COVID-19 among other issues.
Following the same, Prime Minister Oli had given responsibility to party general secretary Bishnu Paudel to set the time of the meeting.