Kathmandu. Ambassador of the Peoples’ Republic of China to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, has met three top leaders of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) separately on Thursday and Friday.
Ambassador Hou Yanqi had met NCP Chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday afternoon at his official residence in Baluwatar.
On Friday, she had a meeting with the party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ at his residence in Khumaltar for a meeting. Then, she went to meet NCP senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal at his residence in Koteshwar.
The series of meetings by Ambassador Hou has drawn significant public and media attention as they were observed at a time when NCP is undergoing a serious political discussion within the party for reviewing the performance of the government.
There is a strong dissatisfaction with the performance of the government with an almost two-third majority in the parliament and full of authority, ever made in the history of Nepal.
A strong voice within the party and public has surfaced after the government proposed an ordinance for easing the split of the political parties. It was facing a regular resistance from the people after its attempt to pass US-funded Millenium Challange Compact (MCC) deal from the parliament. The MCC was denied by the standing committee and central committee of the ruling NCP as it was intentionally designed against the interest of the country and intended to involve Nepal against socialist China under the Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS).
The government is facing serious criticism from within and out of the party. The party leadership is undergoing a serious discourse for correcting the public image of the government and the party.
Meetings of nine membered secretariat – the core of leadership of the NCP and top-most authority, are being organized. Besides, twenty senior members of the forty-five membered standing committee of the party have formally demanded an immediate meeting of the standing committee for decisive discussion about the matter and review of the role of the leadership.
The public and media criticism has been raised due to the disputable role of the government, its ill performance regarding the basic class such as peasants and workers, loose position in the socialist solidarity, the expulsion of the DPRK citizens from the country, increased cases of the corruption and visible involvement of different ministers in the corruption deals, which has destroyed the popularity of the government and the party to the lowest level possible.
The second meeting of the central committee of NCP had formed a three-membered Committee for Investigation and Fact-Finding on the MCC, led by ex-PM and NCP senior leader Jhalanath Khanal which has concluded that the MCC was under the IPS and against the interest of the country and the party, both.
The extreme majority of the NCP central committee, member of the parliament, party members, voters, supporters, and well-wishers are standing against the party-split and corruption, and are unified for firm unity within the party under the principle of democratic centralism.
