Nepal ruling party heads for split as Prachanda expels Oli from top post
The Central Committee unanimously nominated senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal as the party's second chairman in place of Oli. Prachanda is the first chairman of the party.
K P Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Tuesday moved a step towards a formal split, with the Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ -led faction removing Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli from the post of chairman and deciding to take disciplinary action against him.
The Central Committee unanimously nominated senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal as the party’s second chairman in place of Oli. Prachanda is the first chairman of the party.
“Now Dahal and Nepal will chair the meetings in turn as stated in the party statue,” said Rekha Sharma, a central committee member.
Earlier in the day, Oli — one of the two chairmen of the ruling NCP — organised a separate meeting of the Central Committee leaders close to him at Baluwatar, the prime minister’s official residence.
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