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UML Leader K.P. Oli
WM Correspondent
The gross failure on the part of three major political parties-UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (UML)- to elect a new Prime Minister for two consecutive times has also sent the intra-party strife into the stratosphere.
The ongoing political race to grab the much-coveted title of premiership seems to have triggered a great deal of spat amongst the rival coteries especially within the Maoists and the UML.
Implicitly indicating at the bid made by his own party chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal to become prime minister, Maoist vice chairman Baburam Bhattarai, in his recent interview with a national daily, said that the tendency amongst the leaders to satiate person ambition at any cost would bode pretty ill to the country.
No wonder, the loyalists of Dahal within the party termed Bhattarai's expression as a manifestation of ill-intension aimed at blocking the Maoist chieftain from assuming prime ministerial berth.
The party's secretary C.P Gajurel also made complain about Bhattarai for airing contradictory views to undermine Dahal.
The candidacy of Dahal for the post of prime minister was proposed by Bhattarai himself.
The two opposite factions with the Maoists one led by Bhattarai and another by hardliner Mohan Vaidya have long been engaged in a bitter verbal spat.
However, there were assumed to have patched up their differences at least in the case of proposing Dahal as the next premier.
Bhattarai believes that the formation of a consensus government is simply sine qua non to accomplish the constitution writing and peace processes in a smooth manner.
He is also ready to take the reign of new consensus government of the political understanding for the same is achieved.
If the third round of election for selecting new prime minister slated for August 2 again proves a fiasco, the Bhattarai's party position might be strengthened.
But, the possibility of Bhattarai drawing more bitter blame from his anti-camp of sabotaging the party's effort to make Dahal Prime Minister is also equally strong.
Likewise, CPN (UML), that remained neutral in both the two ballots for Prime Minister, is also suffering internal bleedings.
When the faction led by K.P. Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal is speaking in favour of supporting the NC to lead a new majority dispensation, another coterie led by UML chairman Jhala Nath Khanal insists to go for a national consensus government.
The UML is likely to adopt neutrality even in the voting of August 2 as the probability of the party overcoming its internal differences before the set date is very thin.
Senior leader K.P Oli recently said in an interview that the UML could not back the violence oriented Maoists to lead the new government.
Khanal's bid to bag away the title of premiership by securing the magical 301 votes turned into a debacle due to non-cooperation exhibited by the Oli-Nepal faction.
UML general secretary Ishowr Pokharel who belongs to the Khanal faction said that that UML can, in no way, support the NC to create a coalition based on majority.
Be that as it may, the vexing delay in the formation of a new dispensation is only exacerbating the already fragile situation.
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