Kathmandu: K.P. Sharma Oli, the Chairman of Nepal Communist Party (UML) and former Prime Minister, stated that he has again supported the dissolution of the House of Representatives, indicating that it was done to thwart the conclusion of the left movement in Nepal. He claimed that he dissolved the parliament to stop the plan that aimed to end the leftist movement. Meanwhile PM Prachanda is meeting with editors at his official residence on Tuesday, Prime Minister Prachanda mentioned that Oli is still in favor of dissolving the parliament.

On Tuesday, addressing the training program for the Baghmati Provincial Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (UML), Chairman Oli revealed that he had dissolved the parliament to halt the plan to end the leftist movement.

He mentioned that during his tenure as Prime Minister, he had dissolved the House of Representatives to prevent the collapse of the leftist movement in the country. At that time, he asserted that they would be hung by nooses to eliminate them. He emphasized that this action was taken to stop the plan that aimed to bring an end to the political, constitutional, and parliamentary aspects of the movement.

Oli stated, “On the 5th of Push (December 2020), we recommended the dissolution of the House of Representatives. We dissolved it. We decided correctly. We were right, and we dissolved it. We prevented party from being dissolved . We took timely contemporary action. If we hadn’t, our movement would have been crushed. The conspiracy to crush us was planned. To counter that conspiracy, for which they had prepared a noose, we prepared a sword. The step we took on the 5th of Push is exactly that. We cut the rope they had prepared to hang us with. The conspiracy was defeated. After the conspiracy was defeated, they became insurmountable. The plans they had made for years, they were afraid that after the dissolution of the House, we would take another path.”

Chairman Oli did not elaborate in detail about the group that would have executed the conspiracy. Prior to this, he had accused former leaders, including Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) and Madhav Nepal, of trying to topple the immediate past Nepal Communist Party. However, the division of the then Nepal Communist Party happened with the dissolution of the parliament under K.P. Oli’s leadership.

He said, “For our organization, for our strength to be obliterated, for the leftist movement and transformative movement to end in Nepal, the plan was there. We don’t have any direct relationship with that plan anymore. The parliament was not for us. In parliament itself, its existence was not like that. The active characters in it, the puppets sitting in the forefront, were not the ones who would not let the parliament dissolve. The work of not letting it dissolve was not done. Because after we did what we did, what we would do would put an end to us. Our plan that would end us was thwarted. Our step of not allowing it to dissolve was essential. It was a political, constitutional, parliamentary step; that’s what Oli says.

Chairman Oli, at that time, explained that the illegal term used by the Supreme Court regarding the parliament’s dissolution was a cautious step taken in opposition to the reactionary conspiracy.