On June 15, the disciplinary committee led by central member Anand Dhungana announced the decision to expel 18 people and suspend and warn 5 people.
Leader Shekhar Koirala's party has objected that the Congress founding party has expelled old leaders and workers from the party in the name of discipline. The party's central disciplinary committee has shown favoritism and taken action against the leaders and workers of its group, and the other party of the establishment is angry.
The leader of the other party, Koirala, met the chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba and objected to the action of the disciplinary committee. His group has also held a protest meeting in the capital on Monday.
Leader Koirala and some senior leaders did not participate in the meeting organized by the second level leaders of the Koirala side. In the meeting held in the presence of most of the leaders and workers who were expelled from the party, the youth leader of the other party said that the 'stick' of discipline was used by the leadership to protect the political security of the new entrants. They have also warned that they will hold a country-wide pressure program against this.
The disciplinary committee led by central member Anand Dhungana announced the decision to expel 18 people and suspend and warn 5 people on June 15. Ex-ministers, former parliamentarians, former district chairpersons are among those to be evicted. Most of them are leaders of other parties.
Disciplinary committee decided to expel Tulsi Subba, general committee member of Tehrathum, former minister of Kaski Kumar Khadka, state general minister of Lumbini Vikram Khanal, chairperson of Khotang Bishnu Kumar Rai, regional chairperson of Parsa Arvind Kumar Gupta for 1 year and Anand Yadav of Dhanusha for 6 months from party membership. Similarly, it has been decided to suspend Khatru Yadav, Rambabu Yadav, Fulgen Yadav, Bhavna Shrestha of Kaski, Bhim Bahadur Shah of Kailali, Purnakumar Kunwar, Anandraj Joshi, Rabindra Pratap Singh, Lekhraj Ojha, Subhash Chand, Bablukumar Chaudhary for 6 months and Krishna KC, the outgoing chairman of Kaski, for 3 months.
The committee claims that action was taken against party candidates in the 2079 elections for non-cooperation through social media, audio/video and other media and because the explanation was not satisfactory. While the party regulations stipulate that disciplinary action should be taken within 6 months.
Khotang's District Chairman Bishnu Rai's decision to expel him for one year has been made as the main reason for not voting for the candidate of the United Socialist Party in the 079 election. While now the United Samajwadi Party is not in alliance with the Congress but in the opposition front, the Congress is in the government. Similarly, Radheshyam Pathak, a member of the general committee of Nawalparasi, has been prosecuted based on his status on Facebook. He was asked to explain why unlimited status was kept on Facebook with the leader's photo.
In the five-member disciplinary committee led by Dhungana, it was decided to take action on the basis of the majority despite the disagreement of Sanjay Gautam and Rajeev Koirala from the other side. Dhungana, Ishwari Neupane and Dhruva Wagle, the coordinators of the founding side, supported the decision, while the other two disagreed with the decision saying it was against the law and tradition.
Koirala party leader and central member Gobind Pokharel said that the current action is one-sided and biased, saying that the alliance formed in the name of election has brought distortion and anomaly within the party. He expressed his belief that the action taken by the disciplinary committee will be reversed by the central working committee. "Alliance with one party in 074, with another party in 079, if the leadership is left like this, it will form an alliance with UML in 084," said Pokharel, "In Nawalparasi, Vinod Chaudhary also won the election, Bindu Thapa also in Kaski . But why action against Lumbini state general minister and former district president of Kaski?'
The other side of the organization has accused them of taking disciplinary action against the leading leaders and workers of their group by focusing on the upcoming 15th Congress of the party. The other side has alleged that businessman and provincial minister Bindu Thapa is the one who took action against Lumbini state general minister Khanal and businessman Vinod Chaudhary and former chairman of Kaski District Working Committee Krishna KC. Both of them came later in Congress politics.
Chaudhary is a federal MP elected from Nawalparasi-1 and Thapa is an MP elected from Kaski-2 state region 1. Questioning why action was taken in the name of discipline even in the elected areas, Krishna KC, the former district president of Kaski, said in the meeting, "Disciplinary committee members have a complaint against the party." Why was there no investigation against them? The future of the old workers has to be finished to protect the politics of the new entrants of the party?' In the
meeting, some said that they would appeal to the central committee against the action of the disciplinary committee, while others insisted that they should struggle without appealing. 'Why appeal to save the politics of some apolitical people?' Kaski's former chairman KC said, 'Instead, we struggle within the party. We will not appeal.'
Youth leader Devraj Chalise expressed his anger saying that Congress is becoming the party of Vinod Chaudhary and Arju Rana after the political future of old, reclusive leaders and activists is over. The action was not even according to the law. There was no tradition. When is a violation of discipline? Treating the disease or treating the symptoms?' Chalise said, 'In what situation is disciplinary action taken in the democratic party? A search must be made. Action has also been taken based on writing on Facebook. This action is prejudicial.'
There was a clash between leader Shekhar Koirala and central member Vinod Choudhary in the recently held Central Working Committee meeting regarding the action of Lumbini State Chief Minister Khanal. The leaders of the other parties have made a strategy of adopting the legal process against the action and increasing the pressure worldwide for the withdrawal of the action. Similarly, another leader near Koirala, Gururaj Ghimire, said that action was taken against the constitution and traditions of the party by deciding the political future of old leaders and workers. He said that if the action is not withdrawn, there will be a nationwide protest.
