Tika R Pradhan
Kathmandu, October 9: The alliance of senior Vice-chairman of Unified CPN-Maoist Mohan Baidhya and General Secretary Ram Bahadur Thapa today countered the establishment faction’s announcement of a national gathering and political training with their own announcement of yet another gathering, which they scheduled a day earlier.
The Baidhya-Thapa faction had opposed the party’s decision to hold a national gathering, alleging that it was not official.
Standing committee member Dev Prasad Gurung said that leaders had no right to call a gathering in the name of the party without taking a formal decision through a committee meeting, either the standing committee, politburo or the central committee.
“If Dahal and Bhattarai misuse the party’s name for training their own faction, Vice-chairman Baidhya and General Secretary Thapa will organise the party’s official gathering and training in similar fashion,” Gurung said, adding that Dahal and Bhattarai were free to organise their faction’s gathering or training wherever and whenever they wanted, but the decision to organise the party’s programmes must be official.
Commenting on the development, politburo member close to Dahal, Agni Sapkota said the Baidhya and Thapa had scheduled the gathering just to ruin the party’s gathering, but that would have no effect.
(Published in The Himalayan Times on October 10, 2011)
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