According to UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali, the place and date of the convention will be decided by the central committee meeting. The Central Committee meeting is being held on October 29-31.
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UML has decided to hold the 11th Congress in the last week of November after the pressure of transfer of leadership increased within the party. The central secretariat meeting held at Gundu in Bhaktapur on Sunday decided to hold the convention within two months.
According to UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali, the place and date of the convention will be decided by the central committee meeting. The Central Committee meeting is being held on October 29-31. The 10th Congress of UML was held in November 2078. At that time, Oli was elected president for the second term.
The legislative convention held on 20-22 August at Godavari in Lalitpur cleared the way for Oli to become the president for the third term. The legislative convention of UML has removed the 70-year age limit for office bearers and the rule that they cannot serve more than two terms in the executive position.
After the Gen-G movement, the demand to hand over the leadership has been raised in UML. In the secretariat meeting, the leaders also demanded Oli to hand over the leadership. President Oli has been refusing to leave the presidency immediately. But Oli is in trouble when even the leaders who were known as his trust figures in the past started standing in the opposition.
Vice President Vishnu Paudel who was the Minister of Finance in the Oli-led cabinet before the Gen-G movement, Prithvisubba Gurung who was the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai, who was in favor of him in the Legislative Assembly, are standing in favor of party and leadership reorganization.
According to an official, only 5 out of 18 members of the Central Secretariat are standing in favor of Oli. Vice President Guru Baral, General Secretary Shankar Pokharel, Deputy Secretary General Pradeep Gyawali, Deputy Secretary General Bishnu Rimal and Secretary Padma Aryal are among the leaders who are in favor of Oli's continuation. Despite the opinion that UML should be promoted in a new way, Vice President Ram Bahadur Thapa and Secretary Lekhraj Bhatt are neutral on the issue of leadership change.
According to those officials, senior deputy Ishwar Pokharel, vice presidents Yuvraj Gyawali, Ashtalakshmi Shakya, Vishnu Paudel and Surendra Pandey are in favor of Oli handing over the leadership. Also Deputy General Secretary Prithvisubba Gurung, Secretaries Gokarna Bista, Yogesh Bhattarai, Chavi Lal Vishwakarma and Raghuveer Mahseth. The leaders who helped Oli to prevent former President Bidya Bhandari's entry into the legislative convention also stood in favor of leadership change in the secretariat meeting.
Vice Presidents Yuvraj Gyawali and Ashtalakshmi Shakya gave a written opinion on Friday that the 70-year-old leader should formally leave the leadership. They said that the first generation leaders should be given a respectful farewell. "Leadership should exit with respect. It is better to hand over the leadership in a formal manner,' said Gyawali and Shakya.
Vice President Vishnu Paudel, who stood by Oli in the past, said that it is in everyone's interest to move forward after correcting the shortcomings of the past. "We should accept the mistake and go in the direction of reorganizing the party in a new way," he said. Secretary General Pokharel, Deputy Secretary General Pradeep Gyawali and Vishnu Rimal mentioned that strong leadership is necessary to advance the movement in the crisis and said that it was possible from Oli.
According to Deputy Secretary General Gyawali, the leaders expressed their opinions openly in the meeting and the issue of leadership options was also raised. "The ideas in the discussion are not decisions. A lively discussion ensued. The meeting made a common conclusion. We will go to the convention, we will decide there," he said.
Another officer informed that after the majority secretariat members demanded for the transfer of leadership, it was decided to hold a convention and proceed according to law. "This has put a lot of pressure on the president," he said. Oli is not yet in a state of mind to leave the leadership. He has been saying that he will not leave the leadership until his health supports him.
UML's demand for restoration of parliament
UML has concluded that the dissolution of the House of Representatives on 26 October was unconstitutional and undemocratic. The party secretariat meeting has put forward the demand that the House of Representatives should be restored. "The meeting has made a clear demand that the decision to dissolve the House of Representatives should be overturned and it should be restored," Deputy Secretary General Pradeep Gyawali said.
The conclusion of UML is that the government has moved on the path of banning political parties after the President gave the mandate to hold elections. "We have realized that the government is moving on the path of prohibition, revenge and confrontation," UML said, "When there is a security risk, the security personnel of the leaders have been withdrawn. Deputy Secretary General Gyawali said that the security risk has increased when the criminals who looted police weapons and destroyed police stations were released under the instructions of the Home Minister. If there is a basis for the election, it is something to consider. The government should first create a reliable base," he said. "The government is not on the way to hold elections. There is no reliable basis.'
