Dahal's strategy: Hot with Oli, soft with Deuba

While seeking a vote of confidence from the House of Representatives as the Prime Minister on June 28, he portrayed Oli as a leader who has a tendency to "stab in the back while pushing ahead". In the context of Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is allied with UML, Dahal is presented in a soft way.

Dahal said on June 28 that he was not aware of Oli's conspiracy in Parliament. He said that even after reaching an agreement with the Congress on June 17, Oli had told him that 'heaven and hell will go together'. What I thought was leftist sentiment. I believed that the greater welfare of the nation and the basis of socialism would come from this. I was too late to find out that it was a conspiracy,' he said in the parliament, targeting Oli, 'I could not have calculated that some people can never get out of frustration and revenge.' Dahal was relieved of his post after failing to get a vote of confidence on the same day.

On Friday, Dahal raised questions about Oli's faith in the consultation meeting of the special province. He said that since Oli had proposed cooperation with the left wing, he believed him but was betrayed in a short time. "We have collaborated with KPG to go a little further. It was said that party unity can be reached through coalition. "Some friends said that you should not meet Oli without a reliable basis," Dahal said in the meeting, "My intentions were pure but he (Oli) cheated." Didn't seem honest. Believing made a mistake.'

He said in the meeting that it was wrong to break cooperation with Deuba. Alliance with Sher Bahadurji should be continued. KPG said that the situation of communists will be like West Bengal, I started to believe it, he said. The Maoists had agreed with the UML on February 21 and broke the power collaboration with the Congress.

In the Maoist Standing Committee meeting on August 3, Dahal also attacked Olil. It was my mistake to trust KPG. They cooperated to form the basis of left-wing unity, Oli's tactics are different,' he said, 'This has become political dishonesty.' Dahal's eyes were on Oli in the functionary meeting held on July 13 to prepare the agenda for the standing committee meeting.

'Oli government is a coalition of corruption. Now we have to go in the direction of warning against the wrong actions of this government from the streets and the house," he said. On the same day, at the party entry program held at the Maoist central office, Dahal said that Oli's bid had failed him and expressed his determination not to be confused anymore. In the training held on July 21 in the Maoist Koshi region, when the House of Representatives was dissolved twice, Dahal mentioned that he had protested against Oli and instructed the workers to be prepared for the same situation again.

After joining the Maoist opposition, Dahal went to Baluwatar for the first time on July 23 to agree on the transitional justice bill. Dahal was skeptical that an agreement would be reached on the Transitional Justice Bill after Oli became the Prime Minister. But the bill has been passed by the House of Representatives and the National Assembly with an agreement between Congress, UML and Maoists.

When Prime Minister Oli and Congress President Deuba were involved in bringing down the Maoist-led government, why is the focus only on Oli? Therefore, there will be a struggle with the UML in favor of the current political achievements and to protect the constitution. He suspects that Oli is trying to backtrack in the name of amending the constitution.

"It seems that Oli is trying to go back to regression by agreeing on the constitutional amendment," he said. Gurung believes that the Oli government does not want to fully implement federalism and has chosen a monopoly capitalist line. He also claimed that while the Maoist-led government was firmly in favor of good governance, Oli changed the alliance to become the prime minister and stopped the anti-corruption campaign.

UML Propaganda Department Head Rajendra Gautam commented that Maoist Chairman Dahal's speech targeting Oli was inspired by bias. This is a Congress-UML government. Prachanda's expressions inspired by personal passion, jealousy and prejudice do not make any sense. It is an expression of the pain of having to leave power," he said. "Expressions that come from prejudice have no importance in politics. It is a political culture to wait for a hundred days of the government to speak based on democratic values.'

Political science professor Krishna Pokharel said that Dahal might have been angry after being betrayed by Oli less than four months after breaking the alliance with the Congress. "He has the experience that Oli cheated by speaking sweet words," he said, "Oli worked hard to break the Congress-Maoist alliance. Prachanda was very deceived and succeeded. But that cooperation did not last long.'

Oli-Dahal reconciliation and rivalry

The collaboration between UML President KP Sharma Oli and Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal lasted only for three and a half years after the 2074 general election. To eliminate the bitterness since then, an agreement was reached on UML-Maoist government cooperation on February 21. While agreeing at that time, Oli assured Dahal to go together until the 2084 election. Dahal's analysis was that it would be beneficial to join forces with the UML when the Maoists were on the decline. But Dahal's analysis proved wrong less than four months later.

In the past, Oli was the most critical leader within the UML regarding the Maoist armed war. He was criticizing the Maoist agenda from the beginning of the peace process until the promulgation of the new constitution. Dahal supported Oli to become the Prime Minister for the first time on October 25, 2072. In the 2074 general election, Oli and Dahal formed an alliance and won nearly two-thirds of the seats. On February 3, 2074, Oli and Dahal made an agreement to lead the government for the same term, according to which Oli became the prime minister in the first phase. UML and Maoists merged to form CPN on May 3, 2075.

After the party merger, as soon as there were two presidents, the dispute about who was number one became heated. Oli did not hand over power to Dahal after half of his term, nor did he give executive leadership in the party. As mutual bitterness increased, Oli dissolved the House of Representatives twice. CPN itself reached a state of unity, UML and Maoist party woke up. Oli left the government on June 29, 2078 by the order of the Supreme Court.

A government with Maoists was formed under the leadership of Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba. In the political report passed by UML's Vidhan Mahadhivashen held in Godavari, Lalitpur in the second week of October 2078, Dahal was accused of trying to take over the party. "Due to Prachanda's thinking and behavior of taking over the party if he can, dividing if he can't, the unification process has ended without reaching a conclusion," the report stated.

In the general election of 2079, the Maoists formed an alliance with the Congress. But when the government was formed after the elections, the Maoists collaborated with the UML to form the government. But after breaking the cooperation with AML during the presidential elections, Maoists formed an alliance with the Congress. Under the leadership of the government since December 2079, Dahal continued his position even when he formed a new alliance with the UML last February. Dahal's one-and-a-half-year journey to power has come to a halt after that alliance broke up.