Lumbini leaders claim that the chances are slim before the budget.
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Efforts to change the government within the UML have been underway in Lumbini Province. Leaders have claimed that Chairman KP Sharma Oli has started an attempt to change his own Chief Minister after the recent debate on leadership change in the UML. Leaders said that discussions on this issue took place in Kathmandu on Sunday. After failing to reach a conclusion, a discussion was held on Monday in the secretariat meeting regarding the possible change of the leadership of the provincial government and ministers. A leader told the secretariat meeting that Chairman Oli informed the Congress and the NCP that informal discussions are underway on the issue of changing the leadership of all seven provincial governments. Oli had also tried to discuss the issue of changing the provincial government with the Congress on Tuesday. However, the discussion could not proceed after the Congress said it would do so on Wednesday.
UML's Chet Narayan Acharya is currently the Chief Minister of Lumbini Province. He is considered close to UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel. That is why UML's central leaders claim that Oli is trying to change him. According to the agreement with the Congress in Lumbini, Acharya would lead the government for 18 months and the Congress would lead the government for the next 18 months. According to the agreement, that deadline expired last Falgun.
As there is currently a competition for the Chief Minister within the Lumbini Congress between the establishment and other parties, the Congress is preparing to change the leadership of the government only after the provincial government brings the budget. However, efforts are being made in the UML to change the Chief Minister before that. Congress leaders are discussing changing ministers if necessary, but changing the leadership of the government only after the budget.
According to UML leaders, KP Sharma Oli is currently trying to change the leadership in Koshi and Lumbini. For that, Oli is also discussing with the Congress and NCP coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal. On that basis, he informed NCP leader and former Lumbini Chief Minister Jokh Bahadur Mahara about the discussions held at the center. NCP Lumbini Province Coordinator Sudarshan Baral said that general discussions are underway but nothing concrete has been done. ‘It is known that general discussions are taking place with the party leaders,’ he said, ‘There has been no concrete discussion to reach a conclusion yet. Something will happen in a day or two.’
According to a leader elected as a central member of UML from Lumbini Province, Oli is discussing cooperating with the NCP if the Congress is not ready to take the leadership in Lumbini. ‘The chairman’s intention is to first request the Congress to take the leadership as per the agreement, secondly discuss with the NCP and if that is not possible, then put forward another person from the UML,’ the central member said. ‘It is understood that comrade Oli, who was irritated after Vice President Bishnu Poudel and General Secretary Shankar Pokharel went ahead saying that he would change the leadership, is trying to use another option.’
The member said that Oli is trying to immediately change the UML leadership of the Koshi and Lumbini governments. UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel has arrived in his home district of Dang on Tuesday. He inspected the new buildings of the provincial government in Deukhuri on Tuesday and also held discussions with UML provincial ministers and employees. Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Bhumishwar Dhakal said that General Secretary Pokharel has instructed to prepare a budget that will touch the hearts of the people.
The Lumbini provincial government is preparing to hold a parliament meeting on Jestha 7. The government's principles and priorities are being presented in the meeting. Minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives and government spokesperson Dinesh Panthi said that work is underway to bring a policy program after that. Although it is natural for rumors to circulate about a change of government, he said that the possibility of that happening before the budget is low.
'There are rumors of a change of government, but they are just rumors,' he said. 'It may not be possible to change the government immediately since the time for preparing the policy program and budget has begun.' However, he said that rumors of a change of government are circulating from the political leadership to the employees.
