PM Oli-led CPN-UML Suspends Senior Leader Madhav Nepal, Vice-chair Rawal from Party

Pradhan Kathmandu: Prime Minister Ok P Sharma Oli-led ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) has suspended senior social gathering leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal and Bhim Rawal, accusing them of finishing up anti-party actions. In two separate letters issued to former prime minister Madhav Nepal and Vice-chairperson Rawal, the social gathering mentioned that they’d been suspended from the social gathering’s membership for six months.

“This action has been taken as the party was not satisfied by the clarifications furnished by you for your anti-party activities. This is your last chance to correct yourself,” the letter mentioned. “The suspension period can be reduced if you revise your opinions and correct your anti-party activities, said the letter signed by UML Chairman and Prime Minister Oli. In the letter, Madhav Nepal and Rawal have been accused of promoting factional politics within the party by holding “unauthorized” gatherings of party members.

Oli’s decision to suspend them comes at a time when the intra-party rift within the ruling party has climaxed owing to factional feud. Madhav Nepal and Rawal last week boycotted the party’s parliamentary party meeting called by Chairperson Oli for a second time, taking strong exceptions to the “unilateral selections” taken by him on various internal issues of the party.