The party´s statute was passed in the party´s politburo meeting after the establishment faction of the party gave in to the demand of the party´s standing committee member KP Sharma Oli to incorporate provision to allow the party chairman to nominate only five percent members in the central committee. [break]
The meeting also approved the political paper presented by the party Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal. The relationship between the party chairman Khanal and standing committee member Oli had gone sour after the latter was defeated in the election to the post of party chairman held in the eighth general convention in Butwal.
Differences between two senior leaders had widened after Chairman Khanal dissolved the party´s Kathmandu District Committee. Subsequently, the two leaders had formed parallel party committees in various districts across the country.
Oli had filed a 19-page “purification proposal” in the party headquarters, arguing that the provision made by the Chairman Khanal to nominate at least 10 percent members on his discretion in the central committee was against the mandate of the party´s general convention held in Butwal.
The party had earlier formed a committee under General Secretary Ishwar Pokharel to resolve the difference.
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