With the Standing Committee of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) deciding to withdraw the ordinance issued on Tuesday and stop to register a request letter calling for the parliament's special session, the NCP bickering has considerably ebbed, at least for the time being. The agreement for the withdrawal came after rival NCP secretariat leaders and their supporters egged on the Prime Minister to pull out the ordinance that government had introduced to carry out the first amendment to the Constitutional Council Act (Functions, Duties, Powers and Procedures). A day after the ordinance was announced through the Presidential seal of confirmation, the rival leaders sought to summon a special session of the Parliament in an apparent bid to coerce the Prime Minister to withdraw the ordinance or face dissatisfied parliamentarians in the House.

The faction, led by the party co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda and Madhav Kumar Nepal, perceived the ordinance as a step to undermine the party's provision of taking collective decisions on significant matters. The emerging situation threatened to present a precarious time to the government and the ruling party, compelling the rival factions to rescind the ordinance and the call for a special parliament session. Despite the resentment, introducing the ordinance was not an anti-constitutional step, nor was the President's move to give her approval to it. Whenever a government sends ordinances for endorsement, the ceremonial President has no option but to give her consent to them. The President gave her seal of approval to the Tuesday's ordinance as per Article 114 (a) of the constitution. Therefore, there is no point in criticising the President for delivering the ordinance. The requirement for the issuance emerged after some Constitutional Council members made the CC a hostage of indecision.

The previous CC provisions required at least five members to convene the meeting to take any decisions. But instances showed some members, mainly the opposition leader and those who are the part of the NCP rival faction, would not turn up in the meeting if the government did not accept their demand. This often rendered the CC incapable of having decisions on important appointments in constitutional bodies. With the new ordinance, the CC meeting could have taken decisions if there had been only three members present. However, after the rival NCP leaders went against the ordinance and threatened to call the special session of parliament by registering a request letter bearing the signatures of over 80 parliamentarians, the Standing Committee withdrew the ordinance and demand for special house session.

The ordinance had to be introduced to give answers to them who turned the CC a captive of uncertainty, which however drew flak for the government. Sadly, the internal dynamics of the ruling party made the government powerless to continue the introduced ordinance. The successful implementation of the ordinance would have empowered the government to appoint office-bearers in many constitutional bodies without making compromises with the opposition or rival CC members having conflicting interests. The Standing Committee decision, however, can become a blessing in disguise. While pacifying the rising tension in the ruling party, the decision can become a new departure point for ending all differences and animosity in the NCP.