Leaders fear party heading for imminent split



KATHMANDU, DEC 31 - With the hardliners intensifying attacks on the party establishment, party insiders paint a bleak picture of the party's future. Leaders remain divided as to when the party will split.
The heated ideological debate in the party's Central Committee (CC) entered its third consecutive day on Friday with both sides accusing each other of deviating from the party line.
More than half-a-dozen CC members, who spoke to Post on Friday, said the party was heading for a split. They said only 'some miraculous' concession from party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya could save the party from the split. Worried about the worsening rift in the party, Dahal is reaching out to the hard-line faction through his close aides and offering them different solutions, but hardliners remain unconvinced, according to leaders. Some hardliners predict, perhaps wishfully, that like in the past Dahal could make a U-turn to save the party. However, leaders supporting Dahal and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai rule out the possibility of backtracking from the line of peace and constitution. "The twin tasks of peace and constitution writing are a fruit of the decade-long insurgency, we cannot imagine abandoning our position," said Politburo member Haribol Gajurel.
Dahal's plan to accommodate the hard-line faction by calling the party's general convention, which has not taken place for 20 years, has failed to impress the hardliners.
For party unity, Dahal has put forth a condition that the hardliners should fall in line to support the peace and constitution writing processes. But the hardliners maintain that Dahal should publicly admit his "mistakes" on BIPPA, army integration, return of seized property, and scientific land reforms.
Leaders from the Baidya camp, who spoke on Friday, urged Dahal to resign as party chairman on moral grounds. They reasoned that as the line of peace and constitution was propagated by Bhattarai from Chunwang meeting, Dahal has no moral ground to lead the party. "It is very hard to save the party from split as we don't see Dahal coming up with any miraculous solution," said CC member Khagaraj Bhatta.
Some leaders of all three factions, however, are discussing possible ways to avoid the split. This includes offering Baidya the post of acting chairman, fielding Badal as PM candidate, and tolerating hardliners' parallel party structure.
http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/12/31/editors-pick/leaders-fear-party-heading-for-imminent-split/346403.html

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