UDAYAPUR, Jan 12: The Nepali Communist Party (NCP) has postponed its planned “Grand Party Unity Message Assembly” scheduled for Monday after party coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal was unable to allocate time for the programme.
The event, organised by the party’s Udayapur district committee, was called off after it was confirmed that Dahal would not be able to attend due to his engagement in a central committee oath-taking ceremony scheduled for the same day.
According to party sources, the NCP—formed through the merger of 17 political parties—has been holding unity message assemblies across the country to convey a message of party unification to the public. The Udayapur programme was slated for January 12, and all preparations had already been completed.
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“Everything was ready, but we received sudden information that the party coordinator would not be able to make it due to central-level commitments, forcing us to postpone the programme,” said task force member Dron Paudel (Niraj).
Paudel said extensive preparations had been made at Democratic (People’s) Chowk in Gaighat Bazaar, including stage arrangements, publicity campaigns in villages, and planning for rallies, tableaux, and march-pasts. However, the overlapping central committee oath-taking programme led to the postponement.
NCP central committee member and Provincial Assembly lawmaker Smarana Pakhrin (Yoddha) said unity message assemblies had already been completed in seven of Udayapur’s eight local units, excluding Triyuga Municipality, the district headquarters. The plan was to hold the remaining local-level and district-wide assemblies together in one venue, but the coordinator’s busy schedule disrupted those plans.
There is no immediate decision on a new date for the postponed programme. Triyuga Municipal Committee Chairman Man Bahadur Rai said the event would be rescheduled at a suitable time, coordinating the availability of both Coordinator Dahal and Co-coordinator Madhav Kumar Nepal.
