By Our Reporter
Factionalism in the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party in the parliament, failed to be settled even after its Mahasamitee meeting.
Although the leaders, mostly party chair Sher Bahadur Deuba and senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel have been telling that they developed a ‘deep love’ after the Mahasamitee meeting, the real situation looks otherwise.
However, Krishna Prasad Situala, who leads the third camp in the party, said that his faction was still active, hinting that his camp has not merged with the Paudel camp as assumed earlier.
When the Mahasamittee meeting itself turned a mess due to division in the party, many representatives of the powerful body returned home before the prolonged meeting concluded. They even did not get a copy of the amended statute of the party though they had gathered to endorse it. Due to the division, the Central Working Committee of NC could endorse the amendment draft only when 40 per cent of the Mahasamitee representatives had returned home.
Although the camps led by Paudel and Sitaula succeeded to convince Deuba camp to increase the number of office bearers and elect them directly, the meeting failed to delve into the causes of the party’s defeat in the elections last year. The leaders were asking the leadership to call the Mahasamittee meeting right after the results of the parliamentary elections were announced last year. However, the leadership managed to defer the meeting for a year.
Likewise, the Mahasamitee meeting did not formally discuss the issue of Hindu State for which over 50 per cent Mahasamittee meeting had put their signature under a signature campaign.
Now the NC has become the first party to amend its statute as per the federal set up. But the Mahasamitee meeting has failed to energise the party, neither did it succeed to motivate its activists.
Instead, the demand for an early convention put forth by Sitaula seemed to have caused a stir in the party. Situala recently demanded that the general convention should be held by May 2019. Interestingly, the issue of early convention has brought Deuba and Paudel closer, which was also noticed during the two-day dinner meeting the office bearers had with journalists on Saturday and Sunday.
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