Congress President Deuba reached Baluwatar to assure Prime Minister Dahal that the alliance will not be broken by General Minister Thapa's proposal.
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The intense conflict within the Congress on whether to form an electoral alliance or not has been seen as a thorn in the side of the power alliance. After General Minister Gagan Thapa took the stand to take the proposal of no alliance in the next election to the general committee meeting on Tuesday, Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba has become suspicious.
According to an official of the Congress, in the discussion held on Monday night between party officials and ex-officers, an agreement was reached to find a middle way on Thapa's proposal. He said that the organizational report will be revised without letting the substance of the proposal made earlier by General Minister Thapa regarding the electoral alliance die. According to him, in the proposal to be amended, it will be mentioned that "Contemplating that the previous alliance was binding, the Congress firmly resolves that we will fight the future periodic elections alone on our own, we will vote only on the tree symbol".
Earlier in Thapa's proposal, 'Due to the limitations of our election system, it may be natural to make certain common policies and programs after the election to coordinate for government operation, but the coalition culture before the election was not a regular political situation in democracy, but a forced situation. Keeping in mind that, by making a pre-election alliance, a situation will never be created where the voters will cast their votes on the election symbol of any other party.
After Thapa did not give up on the proposal to form an electoral alliance, some leaders of the establishment side called a central working committee meeting and put pressure on him to vote on his proposal. An official who participated said that because some other leaders of the founding party sought a middle way, saying that the general committee meeting would be polarized, it was easy to reach an agreement. There was also pressure to remove the issue of voting on tree symbols in the language that Thapa was prepared to amend. However, after receiving a signal that he would not give up his stance, Chairman Deuba accepted it.
Another General Minister Bishwa Prakash Sharma said that now both the opinions of whether to go to the electoral alliance in the General Committee and not to go to the General Committee will go to the General Committee. "We have reached an agreement without letting the essence of Gagan's proposal die," he said, "tomorrow (Tuesday) the documents will be presented in accordance with the party's agreement at the General Committee meeting." had given The dispute lasted for four days in the Congress between Deuba's pressure that the issue of alliance should not be introduced in the General Committee and Thapa's stance that the issue of alliance is the sentiment of the general party. Due to this dispute, the representatives have not been able to get the ideological document of the party in the general committee meeting that was inaugurated on Monday.
After Thapa's proposal shook the alliance, Deuba refuted it in the opening session of the General Committee, "Now we are practicing the alliance." The current coalition is not only formed for the formation of the government. Some time ago there were activities to untimely dissolve the House of Representatives, bring political instability to the country, endanger the constitution and weaken the federal democratic republic. An alliance was immediately formed due to the initiative, efforts and leadership of the Nepali Congress for the protection of the constitution. The alliance before the last election and the current government is a continuation of that,' Deuba said, 'Since the issue of whether to form a political alliance in the future or not depends on the current situation, the party will be able to take a proper decision at that time after making a solid assessment and discussion on the justification and relevance of the alliance according to the current situation. '
On Monday night, when the meeting was going on between officials and ex-officers regarding the revision of Thapa's report, Deuba went to Baluwatar to meet Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal along with Deputy Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka. According to Baluwatar sources, in the discussion called on the report of Physical, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Prakash Jwala and the Bal Kumari incident, there was also a discussion about the ongoing debate within the Congress regarding the electoral alliance. Sources close to the Prime Minister said that Deuba assured Dahal that he would not go against the electoral alliance.
There is a written agreement between Deuba, Prime Minister Dahal and CPN-S Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal to run the government in turn. According to a Congress leader who witnessed the agreement, it is agreed that Dahal will run the government for two years, then CPN (S) President Nepal and Congress President Deuba will run the government for half/half of the time. If the agreement is followed, Dahal will leave Nepal after leading the government till 082. After that, Nepal will lead the government till 083 June and hand over to Deuba. Deuba, who came to implement the agreement, will get the leadership of the government only from June or July. Even though he separated from the leadership of the party at the end of two terms, Deuba is planning to make him the chairman of the party to maintain his power in politics.
As Thapa asked for votes with alliance for five years in the last election, he has been taking the stance that he should show political honesty in accordance with the agreement with the partner parties during this period, but the proposal of not alliance in the next election should be taken to the general committee as it is the spirit of the general party. Chairman Deuba has been suspicious ever since he introduced this issue prominently in the draft of the organizational proposal to be presented to the General Committee.
In the February 3rd meeting of the Central Working Committee, 4 documents with Thapa were presented for discussion. It was decided to revise it by incorporating the suggestions made in the central working committee meeting on February 4. There was not much discussion in other documents. However, since the beginning, Chairman Deuba has been concerned about Thapa's proposal not to form an electoral alliance. According to
Congress leader Ramesh Akhtar, even though the central working committee decided to pass it with amendments, the problem arose because they did not write a list of the issues to be amended. Congress leader Shekhar Koirala is also in favor of passing the policy of no electoral alliance from the General Committee meeting.
However, Koirala was not present on Monday in the tussle between the party president and the general minister. Thapa had been saying that he had decided not to enter into an electoral alliance with the leaders close to him in the future after the 14th convention of the party was completed two years ago while sitting at the Basera Hotel .
