Kathmandu — The CPN-UML has decided that there will be no discussion in the convention hall on a document registered by senior vice-chairman Ishwar Pokharel. Pokharel had submitted the separate document at the party’s central office in Chyasal on Mangsir 22.
Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said the decision was taken during a Secretariat meeting held on Friday. “There will be no discussion on the document prepared by Comrade Ishwar,” Gyawali said. “He will be allowed to distribute it to the representatives outside the convention hall.
That arrangement will be made. A decision has been reached to reconcile this, but there will be no further discussion on it.” Gyawali also said Pokharel would be allowed to speak on the substance of the document if he chooses to do so.
“If he feels it necessary to speak based on that concept while filing his candidacy, he may do so,” Gyawali said while announcing the Secretariat’s decision. “However, there will be no separate discussion on the document, nor will it be endorsed.”
The non-establishment faction had been preparing to push for a discussion on the document during the party convention. At the UML convention, Ishwar Pokharel is preparing to contest for the post of party chair, while incumbent chair KP Sharma Oli is also contesting the position.
After registering the document, senior vice-chairman Pokharel had said it was submitted so that the issues raised by his group would be included in the documents to be presented by the party at the convention.
In the document, Pokharel has stated that provisions such as the two-term leadership limit and the 70-year age cap—rules that had already been institutionalized within the party—have been manipulated.
