By Our Reporter
The top leaders of the ruling CPN (Unified Socialist) are now intensifying preparations to grab the top posts.
It is said that chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal, senior leader Jhalanath Khanal and General Secretary Ghanashyam Bhusal are eying for the post of chairman.
After the formation of the CPN (Unified Socialist), Ekikrit Samajwadi in Nepali, after splitting the CPN-UML in August 2021, Nepal has been leading the party. However, the party is gradually losing its strength. It even failed to become a national party in the 2022 elections.
Now the party is gearing up for the general convention scheduled for June 30 to July 4 in Kathmandu.
Following a poor performance in the 2022 elections, where it failed even to secure the status of the national party, the CPN (Unified Socialist) is now struggling to retain party members. Despite holding important portfolios in the federal and provincial governments, the party leaders are finding it difficult even to stop its members from rejoining their old party, the UML, let alone attracting new members.
Amid the diminishing influence, the top leaders are now trying to capture the leadership. Although both Nepal and Khanal are claiming that the leadership will be elected in consensus, all three are throwing strength to become party chairman.
Senior leader Khanal recently emphasised the need to elect the party leadership through a consensus.
While addressing the event to launch ‘Mahila Sankalpa-2’, which is the mouthpiece of the party’s women’s wing, All Nepal Women’s Association, Khanal stressed the need for a consensual election of the leaders. However, certain criteria of leadership should be followed, Khanal said.
“To strengthen the leadership within the party, we must select the leaders of the party through a consensus,” Khanal said during the programme. “Since our party was formed on the basis of an ideological ground, political direction, and certain policies and principles, we all should strive to maintain these values while selecting the leadership as well.”
A party insider claimed that Khanal staked his claim for the top position as his political line was adopted in the political document to be presented in the general convention. Party general secretary Ghanashyam Bhusal prepared the political document to be presented at the general convention of the party. While in the UML, party chair Nepal embraced Madan Bhandari’s People’s Multi-party Democracy unconditionally for many years while Khanal and Bhusal viewed it critically.
If the leadership is elected through election, the party may further become weak as the defeated group could quit the party.
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