KATHMANDU, June 17: Barely seven months after party unification, serious internal dissatisfaction has surfaced within the Nepali Communist Party (NCP).
Senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has formally expressed his dissatisfaction with the party leadership, sending a detailed 36-point complaint letter to party coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
In the letter, Khanal has also raised serious concerns over the working style of co-coordinator Madhav Kumar Nepal.
He has stated that despite a long period since the unification, he has been sidelined and denied any meaningful responsibility, which he describes as humiliating treatment, and has questioned the intentions of the leadership.
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Khanal, who has been active in the communist movement for nearly six decades, has claimed that excluding a senior leader like him appears to be a deliberate act. He has also alleged that ideological agreements reached before unification have been violated, stating that Dahal has moved away from the agreed foundation of Marxism–Leninism and scientific socialism.
He further accused Dahal of lacking consistency in his political stance and of coming under the influence and pressure of Madhav Kumar Nepal.
The letter also contains sharp criticism of Madhav Nepal. Khanal has alleged that factionalism, biased treatment of capable leaders and youth, and a tendency to sideline those who disagree with his views have become prevalent within the party.
He has further argued that appointing Madhav Nepal—who is facing corruption allegations and moral questions—as party co-coordinator reflects a decline in the leadership’s ethical standards.
Khanal also described several decisions, including the split of the CPN-UML and the dissolution of the erstwhile NCP, as self-destructive political mistakes.
He has accused the leadership of weakening the communist movement ideologically by introducing multi-party people’s democracy and democratic socialism into the party’s ideological framework.
Expressing prolonged dissatisfaction, Khanal said he feels as if he has been “confined like in a cage” within the party structure.
He has warned that a revolutionary communist party cannot be built under leadership that has lost ideological clarity and moral integrity.
