{"id":2544,"date":"2020-10-02T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:30:58","slug":"govt-appointments-spark-internal-rifts-within-ruling-ncp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Govt appointments spark internal rifts within ruling NCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KATHMANDU: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dissatisfaction is again brewing within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) following the government\u2019s decision to appoint the ambassadors to two countries without consulting the party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cabinet meeting held on Thursday had decided to nominate former Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada as ambassador to the US and former Chief Secretary Lok Darshan Regmi to the UK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli\u2019s decision to ignore his earlier commitment to hold consultations in the party while making important appointments has disappointed the faction led by party co-chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal \u2018Prachanda\u2019 and other senior leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several party leaders have expressed dissatisfaction with the Prime Minister for handing over the title of ambassador to the US to Khatiwada, who had resigned from the post of Finance Minister last month. Prime Minister Oli has repeatedly been providing opportunities to Khatiwada who is considered to be a very close ally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Bhim Rawal, a standing committee member of the NCP, has objected to the move which goes against the standing committee meeting\u2019s recent decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has opposed the Prime Minister\u2019s move, which comes at a time when the main source of intra-party disputes are the issue of shared responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another standing committee member has also accused Prime Minister Oli of not making decisions that are in line with the party\u2019s decision.\u00a0 He also said that the Prime Minister should correct the decision that he made unilaterally by violating the standing committee decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: Dissatisfaction is again brewing within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) following the government\u2019s decision to appoint the ambassadors to two countries without consulting the party.\u00a0 The cabinet meeting held on Thursday had decided to nominate former Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada as ambassador to the US and former Chief Secretary Lok Darshan Regmi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - 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