Organizational unification of CPN will be delayed after Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal left for America Sunday evening for treatment of his wife Sita Dahal who has been ill for a long time.
Dahal and fellow chairman and Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli had intensified discussion about organizational unification before Dahal leaving for America. PM Oli had also discussed the issue of unification of organizations at the lower level with senior CPN leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.
The two chairmen were discussing organizational unification at the PM's residence in Baluwatar almost every morning.
Party sources confide that the two chairmen had been pruning the list of names to head the district committees. "The discussions were focused on just two-three names in some districts while there was only one name for some," a CPN leader told Setopati. "Homework was being done but it had not reached the level of conclusion."
Dahal himself has conceded that there was delay in organizational unification. "There is delay in unification. We must have intense discussion for that," Dahal said at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) before boarding the flight for America.
The standing committee had formed a task force under Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa on December 28, 2018 to submit a proposal about organizational unification of the party and to resolve the discrepancies in the provincial committees within 15 days.
But the party's secretariat dissolved the task force on February 22 after it failed to complete the assigned task, and asked the chairman duo to bring a proposal on the issue of organizational unification. "The chairmen will bring the proposal to the secretariat. We will discuss it there and then send it to the standing committee for approval," CPN General Secretary Bishnu Paudel told Setopati.
CPN has failed to form party committees at the lower level and unify the sister organizations even 10 months after the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) unified.
