{"id":6135,"date":"2021-03-02T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T08:08:06","slug":"govt-forms-two-member-committee-led-by-home-minister-badal-to-hold-dialogue-with-biplav-led-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"Govt forms two-member committee led by Home Minister Badal to hold dialogue with Biplav-led group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> The government has formed a two-member committee led by Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa \u2018Badal\u2019 to hold dialogue with Netra Bikram Chand \u2018Biplav\u2019-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Issuing a statement today, Minister for Communication and Information Technology Parbat Gurung said that the two-member committee has been formed to hold dialogues with Communist Party of Nepal (Biplav Group) and settle their problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajan Bhattarai, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli\u2019s foreign affairs advisor, is another member of the committee that has been tasked to hold talks with the Biplav-led CPN, an offshoot of the former CPN (Maoist) which was outlawed by the government in 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government decision to form the committee marks the formal beginning of an initiative to bring the outlawed group to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While some ministers were approaching leaders of Biplav-led CPN to hold dialogues, there was not any formal initiative for the negotiations with the group whose activities have been banned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following its violent activities, the government on March 12, 2019 had decided to outlaw the CPN led by Biplav and banned its activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the Oli-led government has taken steps in recent days to bring the Biplav-led outfit to the negotiating table after a split of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responding positively to the government\u2019s interest to hold dialogues, Biplav, in his statement on February 20, said that his party was ready to sit for dialogue with the government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6136\" src=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/press-not-427x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/press-not-427x768-1.jpg 427w, https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/press-not-427x768-1-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; The government has formed a two-member committee led by Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa \u2018Badal\u2019 to hold dialogue with Netra Bikram Chand \u2018Biplav\u2019-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN). Issuing a statement today, Minister for Communication and Information Technology Parbat Gurung said that the two-member committee has been formed to hold dialogues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govt forms two-member committee led by Home Minister Badal to hold dialogue with Biplav-led group - KathmanduPati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6135\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt forms two-member committee led by Home Minister Badal to hold dialogue with Biplav-led group - KathmanduPati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU &#8211; The government has formed a two-member committee led by Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa \u2018Badal\u2019 to hold dialogue with Netra Bikram Chand \u2018Biplav\u2019-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN). 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