Kathmandu, November 3
The main opposition CPN-UML says it will not invite the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN-Unified Sociality to its 10th national general convention scheduled to be held in Chitwan later this month.
Nepal was the chief of the CPN-UML for around 15 years and he was one of the top three leaders of the party before he parted his ways to form the CPN-Unified Socialist in August this year. Interestingly enough, the man to announce that Nepal would not be invited was Yogesh Bhattarai, who was considered close to him before he refused to join the new party.
Speaking in a press meet organised in Kathmandu on Wednesday, Bhattarai, as the chief of the party’s publicity department, said the Unified Socialist was an illegal party.
All other major political parties would be invited, according to Bhattarai.
Since the Unified Socialist’s establishment, the UML has been claiming that the Election Commission gave legal recognition to the new party by accepting the signatures of lawmakers already removed by the UML.
The UML is organising its 10th general convention on November 10-12. The event will elect the new leadership of the party, but it is almost certain that current Chairman KP Sharma Oli will be reelected.
