By Our Reporter
After Nepali Congress and Janata Samajwadi Party – Nepal denied launching a joint struggle with the Prachanda-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party, the latter decided to announce its month-long nationwide second phase protest on Monday.
A meeting of the faction held under its chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal on Monday decided to prepare for the protest and launch whole party structure in the agitation. The Prachanda-Nepal faction has termed the dissolution of the House unconstitutional and the restoration of the House has been its single demand. The faction is determined to restore the House through street agitation.
Although NC denied launching its agitation with the Prachanda-Nepal faction of NCP, it also announced its new phase of protest on Sunday. The NC is planning to demonstrate in all 330 constituencies of province assembly on January 9, in all local levels on January 16 and in all 6, 743 wards on January 21.
The Samajwadi Party Nepal has been staging city-centric protests against the dissolution.
Although the NC and the Samajwadi Party Nepal have also termed the dissolution of the House unconstitutional like the Prachand-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party. However, they did not agree to launch a joint agitation stating that the NCP has not yet split formally and both the parties fear whether Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ will again reach an agreement with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. Again, NC wants to utilise the present protest in the elections in case the Court denied reinstating the House.
NCP leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha, however, said that efforts were being made to launch a joint struggle against the House dissolution, and three parties would meet in the street during the protest.
Of course, many suspects that Prime Minister Oli decided to dissolve the House albeit the Constitution does not give any right to a majority prime minister to dissolve the House, in the backing of Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba. It is evident from the fact that he was hesitating to launch a protest against the House dissolution and was telling to wait for the Court verdict, and he had given a nod to appoint in the constitutional bodies by issuing the controversial ordinance on Constitutional Council.
But when senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel, youth leader Gagan Thapa and others exerted pressure on him to go for protest, he was compelled to stage the first phase of protest in all constituencies of House of Representatives.
But after Krishna Sitaula convinced Deuba that the Prime Minister did not intend to hold elections, he agreed to launch the second phase protests. Still, it is rumoured that he expecting an offer of PM from Oli in case the House is reinstated.
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