Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal warned Deputy General Secretary Janardan Sharma about his differing opinions in the public forum. In the standing committee meeting that started on Friday while the conflict was increasing in the party, Dahal warned him that his ideas could be resolved in an internal meeting.

In the meeting, Chairman Dahal instructed the leaders including Deputy Secretary General Sharma to "keep whatever vote you have within the party". "It is not good for Janardanji to speak outside, he should stay within the party's rules and regulations," he said. Let's have a congress, let's put our point in the central committee meeting. Let the other comrades also keep their point within the party.

President Dahal said that it was wrong to spread the word that action was going to be taken against Deputy Secretary General Sharma on the basis of having a different opinion. "In the past, we have gone to all seven provinces as a consultation meeting regarding Janardanji's opinion," Dahal said in the meeting, "It is wrong to propose action based on what he said."

Dahal said that conclusions will be reached from the central committee meeting in October and then the convention on issues such as the party's new leadership and direction. He also challenged to change the leadership of the party from the convention. "If the leadership is to be changed, it should be done through the convention," he said, "Whatever we want to talk about, let's do it within the party." Let's not get involved in the incitement of interest groups.' Dahal asked the standing committee members to pay attention to 'democratic centrality (internal democracy and discipline)' as it would be harmful to have a scattered opinion in public. 

He has also put a proposal to manage the inter-conflict in the standing committee meeting. The leaders said that internal unity and management of inter-conflict will be discussed in the meeting. 

In the standing committee meeting, Deputy General Secretary Sharma has prepared to give his views on the questions raised by him publicly about party leadership, methods and methodology. He has been raising the issues of party reconstruction, leadership transfer, and internal democracy in public for a long time by holding special congresses. He says that he has been accused of trying to split the party from the leaders close to the 'headquarters'. "I urge you to be aware of cultivating confusion among the party workers and the people by spreading the propaganda that the party will split continuously from the top level for two years," he appealed through social media on Tuesday.

President Dahal had also publicly objected earlier saying that some leaders were playing tricks without taking Deputy Secretary General Sharma's name. Even now, some friends seem to be able to play a little bit of Singouri. I have given them a lot of singing,'' he said at the Pushpalal memorial meeting held on July 7.

Sharma, who has been staying close to Dahal since the armed conflict, has been unhappy lately. He alleges that the "headquarters" has been spreading false propaganda against him since the last general election. In the standing committee meeting held in July 2081, Deputy Secretary General Sharma submitted a 14-page written opinion stating that the party system is not democratic, leadership should be transferred, and the ideological policy should be clear. A 'consultation meeting' was held in all the seven provinces on his opinion. Maoists called it the highest exercise of internal democracy. After a long discussion, Sharma was given the responsibility of head of the organization department by the standing committee last January. Last Baisakh, when Rukum reached Chaurjahari in West, Sharma became more angry when Dahal expressed his intention that 'even if he leaves the party, it doesn't matter'. Since then, Dahal and Sharma have been publicly questioning each other. 

After Deputy Secretary General Sharma raised questions about Chairman Dahal's working style, there has been polarization in the Maoists from the center to the district level. After publicly criticizing the party's reorganization and leadership style, the leaders and workers of the establishment party have launched a campaign against Sharma on social media. Leaders-activists of Sharma side are countering it. 

'Opportunism has no limits to ideas, politics, integrity and principles. It is the tasteless tongue of a boundless human figure. This tongue eats as much as it can get and vomits carelessly on days when it doesn't get enough,' wrote Ramprasad Sapkota (Deepshikha), a member of the Central Committee, referring to Deputy Secretary General Sharma, 'Leadership is the ability to advance the movement based on revolutionary ideas and principles. By defaming one's own leadership, neither the party nor the movement becomes strong. The benefit from this will ultimately be taken by the reactionaries.'