Communist leader Jhal Nath Khanal, popularly known as comrade JN, has set the “party-break” ball rolling in his own manner.
The first shot to the Unified Communist party.
Though his inner motive may not that be to hit hard the newly unified Nepal Communist Party and push it to the wall, however, the former senior leader of the UML who also was one time the Prime Minister of Nepal is of the opinion that the unified party has not done justice with the seniority that he should have been awarded with and thus he is not that happy with the current protocol that places him in the third position.
Protocol matters.
Mr. Khanal’s claim is that he should have been placed as the second man in the unified party’s hierarchy.
Mr. Khanal, unfortunately, is the first and last Nepal PM who was not invited by the Indian establishment by breaking almost the tradition that has been in place in Nepal-India relations since the Nehruvian doctrine came into its existence.
The practice has been that the moment one PM in Nepal is announced, the next moment he, read the newly elected or nominated Nepal PM, receives a telephone call from the sitting Indian PN in New Delhi who inevitably invites his Nepali counterpart for a visit to India and the Nepal PM unfailingly obliges the Indian request. So this has been the tradition immaterial of the occasional irritants observed in Nepal-India ties.
Modi-Oli affair is an example.
However, Mr Khanal has the distinction for having been not invited by the Indian regime perhaps New Delhi takes him as Beijing man.
New Delhi and Beijing run parallel to each other.
Whether he is a Beijing man or not but even inside Nepal, Khanal is considered as a man close to Beijing.
According to Khanal, the aggrieved party here, claims that he was demoted in the unified Communist party while he was out of the country and that the Unified Party that is the Nepal Communist Party should correct the blunder or face a revolt.
Interestingly, senior leader of the former UML, Madhav Kumar Nepal, has been placed in a higher rank in the now unified party than Mr. Khanal.
In fact it is this step of the unified party that has deeply hurt Mr.
Khanal or else Khanal may have consoled himself.
“I have registered my displeasure in the now unified party’s secretariat and the men handling the secretariat have assured me that they would do justice on the issue that I have raised”, said a hopeful Khanal.
Rumors have it that Mr. Nepal is closer to the Indian establishment. However, it remains yet to be substantiated.
Former UML Leaders like Bhim Rawal and Ishwar Pokhrel too apparently have expressed their displeasure with the ranks that they have been offered by the newly unified Communist Party of Nepal.
In a way, the Unified party has already landed in trouble. In a way, the Unified party has already landed in trouble? Will the traditional communist greed push this newly born party into a fresh breakup?