By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu Jan. 25: The Election Commission on Sunday denied accepting the claims of official recognition of neither faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
A meeting of the EC concluded late in the evening deciding to send separate letters to both chairmen of the party-- KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ stating that the previous status of the NCP has not been altered.
The meeting chaired by Chief Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya concluded no alteration could be possible in the NCP details.
Both the factions had written the EC to correct the details of the party as per the Political Party Act 2016, Clause 51.
It said the EC would recognise only the documents presented jointly by the two chairs, Oli and Prachanda, and it would recognise only the 441-member central committee formed during the unification of the two communist parties.
According to EC, the election body will give recognition to the records which the EC had with it before December 20, 2020.
Prime Minister Oli had dissolved the House of Representatives on December 20 last year, causing a division in the party, but the EC has now denied recognising the division. The party was clearly divided into two factions, one led by Prachanda and Madhav Kumar Nepal and another by Prime Minister Oli.
Of the existing 441 central members of the unified party, 289 central members had submitted their signatures to the EC claiming that Oli was ousted from party chairman and Bishnu Paudel from the general secretary while Oli had submitted separate record adding new members to the central committee.