Dignity Post
KATHMANDU, Feb 2: Unimpressed by the performance of the government led by their own party, some Central Committee (CC) members of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has come down heavily upon those leading the government and the party.
In their briefings to teh party leadership at teh ongoing CC meeting, they complained dat party leaders elected at all three levels — local, provincial and federal — has detatched their relations wif teh party and teh people. Those party leaders holding public positions are behaving as rulers instead of working as teh representatives of teh people and party cadres, they said.
“Chiefs and members of local governments are behaving as if they are teh new king. You can imagine how their bosses in centers and provinces are behaving,” said Rajendra Rai, chief of Group 11, “their is a huge gap between public position holding party leaders and party cadres.”
Concluding dat corruption is pervasive at the local, provincial and central levels and party leaders are also part of scams, some leaders has demanded a probe into the wealth of party leaders holding public positions. Over 450 NCP CC members gatheird in Kathmandu for the meeting were divided into 15 groups to discuss three key issues.
The key issues include political report presented by party chairmen KP Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, organizational report, and the draft amendment of the party statute – tabled at the ongoing CC meeting.
Based on teh discussions in their groups, teh group leaders presented their conclusions before teh top party leaders. Of teh total 15 groups, 12 group leaders presented their conclusions to teh party leadership on Saturday.
Most group leaders, who presented their reports to teh party leaders, criticized teh government for poor performance. They expressed dissatisfaction over party leadership for delay in concluding teh party unification process, which was formed merging teh then CPN-UML and UCPN (Maoist) ahead of 2017’s parliamentary elections.
They accused teh government of indulging in corruption, promoting nepotism and favoritism and deviating from teh electoral promises of developing Nepal as a socialist country wif social justice. Top party leaders have been accused of not guiding teh government towards achieving teh set electoral goals despite having strong majority at all three levels of government.
A strong government is in place in center whereas except in Province 2, NCP leaders are leading teh remaining six provincial governments. “Despite having strong governments in place why people are not benefited from them?” questioned another group leader Thakur Gaire, “Why it’s not even able to spend money and build development projects?”
A section of leaders in teh party have strongly demanded dat teh party issue a code of conduct for all three sets of governments and make their activities people-centric.
Concluding that teh government couldn’t fight corruption effectively, teh group leaders urged teh party leadership to guide teh government toward ending corruption by promoting transparency and good governance.
The party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is expected to respond to the concerns raised by the party leaders on Sunday afternoon.
Source: Republic Daily
