{"id":11109,"date":"2026-05-24T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/?p=11109"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:21:13","slug":"criticized-in-secretariat-meeting-oli-to-respond-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/?p=11109","title":{"rendered":"Criticized in Secretariat Meeting, Oli to Respond Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Himal Hub \/<\/strong> The central secretariat meeting of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist\u2013Leninist) is set to continue today, with mounting pressure on party chairman K. P. Sharma Oli after two days of intense internal criticism from senior leaders demanding a change in leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today\u2019s meeting will take place at Oli\u2019s residence in Gundu, Bhaktapur, beginning at 11:30 am. The main agenda includes Oli responding to a wave of questions and criticisms raised by party leaders. Before his response, several leaders who have yet to speak will present their views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The secretariat meeting, which began on Friday, continued through Saturday with leaders openly expressing dissatisfaction over Oli\u2019s leadership style. Most speakers during the two-day session reportedly urged Oli to pave the way for new leadership, signaling growing unrest within the party\u2019s top ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the few leaders defending Oli were Vice Chairman Ram Bahadur Thapa and Secretary Mahesh Basnet, who argued that party leadership should be protected during times of political uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, even General Secretary Shankar Pokharel reportedly refrained from fully backing Oli during Saturday\u2019s meeting. According to party sources, Pokharel indirectly suggested that the party could no longer move forward effectively under the current circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several influential leaders, including Deputy General Secretaries Yogesh Bhattarai and Raghubir Mahaseth, along with Secretaries Chhabilal Bishwakarma, Hikmat Kumar Karki, and Yam Lal Kandel, were also seen aligning against Oli during Saturday\u2019s discussions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, four vice chairpersons \u2014 including Bishnu Prasad Paudel\u00a0 were likewise reported to have stood against Oli\u2019s continuation as leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Deputy General Secretary Lekharaj Bhatta and Secretary Padma Aryal have openly supported Oli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Secretaries Sher Bahadur Rai, Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, Khagaraj Adhikari, and Rajan Bhattarai are scheduled to present their views before Oli delivers his much-anticipated response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite strong criticism from a majority of speakers urging him to step down, sources say Oli has so far refused to consider relinquishing leadership, setting the stage for a high-stakes confrontation inside the ruling party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himal Hub \/ The central secretariat meeting of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist\u2013Leninist) is set to continue today, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11109\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}