Ideological struggle within party should be addressed: UML Leader Khanal

Kathmandu, Aug 2: Senior leader of the CPN (Unified Socialist) and former Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal has pointed out the need to address ideological struggle within the party.

At a press conference organised on Saturday, he opined that the party leadership has not been able to bring the ideological policy and programmes of socialism passed by the party’s general convention. The CPN (Unified Socialist) leader stressed the need to hold discussions from the secretariat to the standing committee about the challenges seen in the party.

“Ideological struggle within the party should be addressed through discussions as well, and solutions should be explored in the party’s meeting”, he argued. Remembering the five-decade-long collaboration with party chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal, leader Khanal opined, “Chairman Nepal asked me to quit the party.

The dispute with the Chairperson is not on a personal level. Ideological and theoretical clarity was necessary to establish justification even after four years of split from the CPN (UML).”