By Our Reporter
The Election Commission Nepal has surprisingly refused to grant official recognition to either faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’-Madhav Nepal.
A meeting of the commission chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya Sunday evening decided not to grant official recognition to both factions of the NCP and decided to write separate letters to both chairmen Oli and Dahal to inform that ‘the details of the former are still there’.
The Election Commission did not accept the claim of the authority of either faction, EC informed.
With this decision, only the details submitted to the commission jointly by NCP Chairman PM Oli and Dahal will be acceptable.
The EC said it would recognize only the 441-member central committee chaired by Oli and Dahal. But this decision came as a big support to Dahal-Nepal faction as over 300 of the 441 central members are with this camp.
With this decision, the details of the NCP that were maintained in the Commission before December 20, 2020, will be maintained.
The EC did not accept the decision of the Dahal-Nepal faction to oust chairman Oli from the party chairman and appoint Madhav Kumar Nepal as the party chairman.
Even the EC did not recognise Bamdev Gautam as vice-chair of the party.
The decision of the EC has, of course, put the Oli camp in difficulty as when EC knows only 442-member central committee, more than 300 of them are with Dahal-Nepal faction now.
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