MJF expels Gachchhadar, six other leaders; withdraws support to govt; split looms NepalNews Upendra Yadav announced that the central committee meeting of the party held this morning decided to terminate parliamentary party leader Gachchhadar, who was appointed as the deputy prime minister on Thursday, Sarad Singh Bhandari, party spokesperson Jitendra Dev, Rameshowr Raya and Upendra Jha, among others. ...... Yadav also announced withdrawal of support to the UML-led coalition government and one-day general strike in all Terai districts on Monday. ....... He blamed Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala for plotting to divide the party. ...... supporters of party chairman Yadav and Gachchhadar clashed at the party central office. ...... Gachchhadar found the main door of the party office padlocked when he reached there to receive felicitations from his cadres. Gachchhadar ordered his cadres to break the door open, entered the party office and received felicitations. ...... Cadres supporting Yadav waved black flag to Gachchhadar as he was being garlanded. Yadav supporters also pelted stones at Gachchhadar's car when he was returning. ... Police had resorted to baton-charging to take the situation under control. MJF on the verge of split Take back withdrawal, expulsion decisions: GachchhadarRepublica parliamentary party of MPRF, of which he is the head, had decided to join the government despite Yadav´s opposition.
When Bijay Gachhedar says Upendra Yadav has been opposed to joining the Madhav Nepal government, he is lying. Upendra Yadav did explore other options duirng the recent political turmoil in the country like every other top political leader in the country, but the final decision had been that the MJF will join the government after all, but it will do so in Upendra Yadav's leadership, since he is the duly elected leader of the party.
Bijay Gachhedar went againt that party decision. The MJF would still have joined the government and Bijay Gachhedar would still have been a minister. But that was not enough for him. He had to become a pawn of Madhav Nepal and Girija Koirala who are hell bent on splitting up the MJF.
Mao discovered a long time ago that every time he expelled half the members of his central committee, his party doubled in size. That is what is about to happen to the MJF. The party's organizational base is about to grow by leaps and bounds. A party born out of a revolution can not be hurt by the smoke-filled room politics of a few Bahuns.
The Nepali Congress has no revival strategy. The MJF was one of the two victors of the election last year. It is going to emerge a bigger victor in the election next year.
The MJF has not split. A few people who should never have been brought into the party have been expelled.
Upendra Yadav should now put more trust in the leaders born out of the two Madhesi revolutions rather than hollow name politicians imported from other parties, especially the Nepali Congress and the UML.
MPRF withdraws support to govt Republica accusing Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal of conspiring against Madhes and splitting the party. ..... Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar and six other central leaders on the charge of conspiring against the party. .....Sarat Singh Bhandari, Jitendra Dev, Ramsaroop Raya, Ramjanam Chaudhari, Upendra Jha and Ratneswor Lal Goit. ..... Yadav accused Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, Tarai-Madhes Loktantrik Party and Sadbhabana Party (Mahato) of splitting MPRF. ..... Yadav also announced that his faction would not work for another coalition with the Maoists. “We will be active as a responsible opposition now” ..... his party would use the street and Constituent Assembly to contribute to the constitution- drafting process and peace process. He also announced Madhes shutdown for Monday to protest the role of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML in splitting the party...... Okil Musalman, a leader in the Gachchhadar-faction, said the decision to expel the seven leaders is unconstitutional as it was not decided by the central committee of the party. “Most of the central committee members are not in the capital today [Friday]” .... Gachchhadar is expected to organize a press conference later in the evening to make his position public. DPM greeted with black flags Gachchhadar and his supporters were forced to flee the scene, claimed BP Yadav, a leader close to party chairman Yadav.
Yadav threatens to withdraw support to government Republica Yadav termed the appointment of his party colleague and leader of MPRF´s parliamentary party Bijay Gachchhadhar as deputy prime minister "unconstitutional". He also termed it a ploy by other political parties to split his party ..... Gachchhadar was inducted into the cabinet as deputy prime minister and minister for Physical Planning and Works. .... A taskforce formed to address the feud had decided that both the leaders would be sent to the cabinet. Gachchhadar faces action The berth of Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar in the cabinet as the deputy prime minister leading the Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (MPRF) has not only pushed the party on the brink of split but also invited trouble to the new coalition government led by Madhav Kumar Nepal. ..... leaving the party´s establishment faction to contemplate on possible action against Gachchhadar and withdrawing his party´s support to the coalition government. ...... the recommendation made earlier on Thursday afternoon by Gachchhadar on who should be represented in the cabinet from his party. He had also produced signatures of a majority of his party lawmakers and of members from the political committee of his party. ..... “We are going to call the meeting of the central working committee in a day or two to decide action against Gachchhadar.” ....... the Yadav-faction who is in now minority in both in the parliamentary party and the ten-member political committee of the party. ...... Renu Yadav claimed that 36 out of 53 MPRF lawmakers are still with the party chairman. But Pramod Prasad Gupta, who is close to Gachchhadar refuted Yadav´s claim. ....... “Induction of any name into the cabinet without an official recommendation from the party will be against the spirit of the constitution. If such a situation is created, it would not be acceptable to our party.” ...... Earlier on Thursday morning, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala asked Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal over the phone to appoint Gachchhadar as deputy prime minister ..... Koirala made the request to Nepal after he held a meeting with Gachchhadar at Koirala residence at Maharajgunj. NC leader Khum Bahadur Khadka accompanied Gachchhadar during the meeting. Yadav asks PM not to recognize Gachchhadar´s list NC submits ministers' list to PM Gachchhadar threatens over DPM Nearly all senior leaders, except Sher Bahadur Deuba, have strongly opposed the party president´s move to propel his daughter as leader of the NC team. ..... Wakil Musalman of MPRF told our correspondent Kiran Chapagain that Gachchhadar met NC president Koirala earlier Thursday insisting that he be made deputy prime minister "as promised". "I won´t just accept home ministry," Musalman, a staunch supporter of Gachchhadar ...... Gachchhadar faction has been claiming that both Prime Minister Nepal and Koirala had promised to make Gachchhadar deputy PM if he lent support to the government that replaced a Maoist-led coalition government. MPRF lawmakers to press PM for DPM to Gachchhadar Although the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) patched up its dispute on Saturday to avoid an imminent split, intra-party activities show that the dispute is still on and the patch-up is not working. ....... a “majority” of MPRF lawmakers tried to meet Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to remind him of his commitment to their parliamentary party leader, Bijaya Gachchhadar ....... They said that Nepal and other party leaders had promised a deputy prime ministership to Gachchhadar. ...... “We will tell the prime minister that we may do anything if he does not appoint Gachchhadar as deputy prime minister,” said Musalman. ........ likely faces from the UML are Raghubir Mahaseth, Bhim Rawal, Bhanubhakta Jaisi, Bishnu Poudel and Ram Chandra Jha Gachchhadar lone minister from Forum so far Gachchhadhar also submitted signatures of majority of leaders of his parliamentary party, as well as signatures of six out of 10 member of the party’s political committee in support of his candidacy. ..... Gachchhadhar and other leaders from Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, including Sharat Singh Bhandari and Jitendra Dev Gachchadhar submits his candidacy with majority support Gachchadhar arrives in UML Balkhu office Deputy prime minister-hopeful Bijay Gachchadhar and other leaders from Madhesi People’s Rights Forum, including Sharat Singh Bhandari and Jitendra Dev, have just entered the UML head office in Balkhu. Dispute escalates in MPRF "I don´t have any reservation on the first decision as we should try to lead the government if others support us but I want to write a note of dissent on the second decision," said Gachchhadar. "The second decision clearly aims at stopping the formation of a democratic coalition." ...... Yadav even termed the CPN-UML and Nepali Congress as cobras and claimed that the Maoist-led coalition was much better than the one led by the two "status quoist" parties. ..... When Yadav was speaking, some members hooted against him and banged on the table as a symbolic protest. ...... parliamentary party secretary Mrigendra Kumar Singh Yadav ....... Mrigendra termed chairman Yadav´s remarks against NC and UML "unrealistic" and said the Maoists were pythons if the NC and UML were cobras. ........ Karima Begam, a vocal critic of chairman Yadav, then, started criticizing Upendra´s loyal members including Raj Lal for "bullying" in the party meeting. ....... Sensing serious confrontation, chairman Yadav and co-chair JP Gupta left the meeting hall citing their appointments outside. ....... Yadav-dominated central committee, after 15-hour-long meeting at 3:30 am on Friday, had decided either to form a government under the party´s leadership or support an alliance which agrees to implement the eight-point agreement signed by the government in February 2008. The central committee had decided not to join the government led by anyone else. Bhandari rules out PLA's integration into NA Maoist combatants will be managed and rehabilitated, but not integrated into the Nepal Army. ....... Regarding the pay and allowance of the combatants in the cantonments, she said that it will be appropriate to provide the allowances directly to the individuals instead of making the payment in bulk. .... Bhandari further said that the Maoists had to leave the government because they tried to take decisions unilaterally. Yadav begins signature campaign against Gachchhadar MPRF lawmakers to press PM for DPM to Gachchhadar Yadav dubs Gachhadar's appointment unconstitutional NepalNews Madheshi Janadhikar Forum chairman Upendra Yadav has said appointment of Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar as the deputy prime minister is unconstitutional. ..... the party would withdraw support to the UML-led coalition. ....... Soon after Gachhadar was sworn in as the deputy Prime Minister, MJF has recalled him from the cabinet and written to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to appoint any more ministers from the party without approval of the party. ...... Yadav also accused the UML and Nepali Congress of trying to split his party by appointing a party candidate without the party’s decision. “Madhav Kumar Nepal should take the ‘credit’ of the split” Coalition partners sign CMPNew Power Equation and the NC’s Misery One fine morning, disgruntled MJF members could withdraw support culminating in the fall of the government..... “Girija Prasad Koirala has the capacity even to burn his own house if he is threatened to move out of it. Like Koirala who has the uncanny ability of creating problem for himself, Deuba’s ability is first to plunge into action and then think later.” ...... Deuba is to become the next president of NC in exchange of making Sujata the team leader of Nepali Congress ministers in Madhav Nepal’s coalition government. Dhritarastra’s blind attachment towards his son Duryodhana finally led to the Great War in Kuruchhetra called Mahabharata. Girijababu has lost all his sense of discretion when it has come to his daughter. All we can say is that the countdown of the government has already begun.
Madhav Nepal lost from two constituencies. He is now Prime Minister.
Sujata Koirala lost to Upendra Yadav. She now leads the Nepali Congress in the government.
Bijay Gachhedar did not even win to become a central committee member of the MJF at the party's convention, let alone party president. He is now Deputy Prime Minister.
This government is already in a mess. It has started on the wrong foot.
I give Madhav Nepal six months.
Madhav Nepal appointed Bijay Gachhedar Deputy Prime Minister at the urging of the Nepali Congress president. Madhav Nepal forgot that Gachhedar is no longer a member of the Nepali Congress.
Bijay Gachhedar still has the same ministry he had in the Maoist led government, but the ministry that Upendra Yadav had has already been given to Sujata.
The Nepali Congress, the UML seem to think that if the MJF splits, the MJF will get washed away in the Terai. That is the Nepali Congress' revival plan in the Terai. It would have been better if the revival plan had something to do with winning the hearts and minds of the Madhesi people by proposing to meet their aspirations for opportunity and equality.
Taking nepotism to new heights can not be a revival plan. Girija has no revival plan for his party.
Political Turmoil
True, there was political turmoil. Upendra Yadav took a little too long to realize that Prachanda never meant to offer him the Prime Ministership. But staking claim was not a bad thing. Why not? The next step was to suggest the MJF will support the government, but not join it. That was taken as an act of hostility. Finally the MJF as a party decided to join the government under Upendra Yadav's leadership with Bijay Gachhedar getting a major ministry. And we thought the quarrel had been settled. But Gachhedar did not rest at that.
Partly Bijay Gachhedar is to be blamed. He has had no regard for the party. Partly the NC and the UML leaders are to be blamed. They like the idea that they might be about to split their number one rival in the Terai.
Upendra Yadav also has to take some responsibility. There is a need for a serious introspection on his part as to his leadership style. But that is a minor issue. Right now is the time for the party president to assert his leadership. If someone else wants to be party president, they should either wait until the next party convention, or instigate an immediate party convention. Upendra Yadav is party leader because he was so elected unanimously at the last party convention. There is nothing in the party above the party convention.
I Give Madhav Nepal Six Months
The countdown has already begun. This is weird.
Madhav Nepal Has Already Made A Huge Mistake
He has meddled in the internal affairs of the MJF at the instigation of Girija. That has been a big mistake.
Bijay Gachhedar Is Begging For Disciplinary Action
As a last resort the MJF central committee has to look into disciplinary action for Bijay Gachhedar. After the general convention that is the second most important body in the party, the central committee is. Bijay Gachhedar has disrespected both the general convention and the central committee.
Upendra Yadav's Mistakes
He forgot the leaders produced by the Madhesi Kranti and gave a lot of power over to newcomers like Bijay Gachhedar and Sharat Singh Bhandari who are now out to undo him.
Jay Prakash Gupta has been with him from the beginning. If Upendra Yadav was not going to lead the parliamentary party himself, he should have gone for Jay Prakash Gupta.
Upendra Yadav made the big mistake of not getting himself elected parliamentary leader right after the elections. He should not repeat the mistake.
Upendra Yadav became aloof in power. As party leader you have to regularly consult with all your key colleagues.
Right now he should engage in one on one conversations with all his MPs and all members of his central committee. He should ask probing questions and listen and learn. He should exhibit humility.
Most important, right now he has to fight back. He can not let Bijay Gachhedar decide the fate of a party born out of a revolution. He can not let Madhav Nepal and Girija Koirala split the MJF.
Fight back now. Rethink your leadership style after victory.
Under no circumstances split the party. That is absolutely not an option.
Six months, now that is a really long time in politics.
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