Nepal Maoist Central Committee Meeting deferred until November 13th

The Central Committee (CC) meeting of the ruling UCPN (Maoist) has been deferred till November 13 as the meeting of the first day on Thursday could not take up the agendas amidst dispute.

In the meeting which lasted for half-an-hour at the party headquarters in Peris Danda, party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda presented a brief proposal on the political situation and the internal dispute of the party while vice chairman Mohan Baidya aka Kiran presented 10- point document opposing the latest moves of the party leadership, especially the signing of the agreement on concluding the peace process on November 1.

After the presentation of the proposals, chairaman Prachanda  announced deferral of the meeting citing time constraint.

The much awaited meeting was expected to discuss ways to resolve the internal dispute on a number of issues including the recent peace deal, the 4-point agreement with United Democratic Madheshi Front (UDMF) that paved the way for Bhattarai-led government, the handover of the keys of the arms containers and investment deal with India.

Report from nepalnews.com

Another Report from Krishnasenonline here :

Kathmandu, Nov. 3: The central committee (CC) meeting of the UCPN (Maoist) held on Thursday at the party central office, Paris Danda, Koteswor has been postponed till November 13. In Thursday\'s meeting, party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal \' Prachanda\' delivered his views in brief on contemporary politics, reasons behind signing the seven point deal with other political parties and its positive impacts in peace and constitution writing process, informed party spokesperson Dinanath Sharma to journalists after the meeting.


Earlier, the meeting of party\'s office-bearers had decided to take the objections of senior Vice-chairman Mohan Baiddya \'Kiran\' regarding the seven-point agreement, BIPPA signed with India and other issues in the party\'s grass-root level for discussion and receive suggestions from the cadres, said Sharma. Sharma said the meeting was postponed as chairman Dahal is scheduled to leave for USA and party vice-chairman and Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is visiting Maldives to attend the SAARC Summit.

Spokesperson Sharma further added party\'s top leaders have been given responsibility to finalize the appropriate procedures to resolve the intra-party rift. Today\'s meeting was very positive and all central leaders agreed to resolve the intra-party rift based on democratic centralism, added another central member Dhruba Parajuli