INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 28
The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) postponed its Secretariat meeting scheduled for tomorrow till September 3, as
two of the Secretariat members had to go into self-quarantine.
This combo image shows Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwar
Pokharel (left) and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa
Photo: THT
Prime Minister KP Sharma Olis Press Adviser Surya Thapa said the meeting was postponed as two Secretariat members mdash; Deputy
Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ishwar Pokharel and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa mdash; had to quarantine themselves after an
employee at COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre tested positive for COVID-19
CCMC is led by Pokharel, while Thapa is one of its members.
The next Secretariat meeting is scheduled to discuss the report submitted by the
partys six-member task force led by party General Secretary Bishnu Prasad Paudel.
The task force had recently submitted an 18-page report
suggesting that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli should be allowed to hold the post of prime minister till the tenure of the current House of
Representatives ends and that of party co-chair till the partys unity convention.
The task force also suggested that NCP Co-chair Pushpa
Kamal Dahal should be given executive power to run party affairs.
Oli and Dahal had formed the task force after the majority of the partys
Standing Committee members had asked Oli to quit either the post of PM or party co-chair
Oli had refused to quit any post.
A version of this article appears in e-paper on August 29, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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