Pokharel's rivalry with Oli is certain
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Media Baaji
- Fri, 21 November 2025
Kathmandu. UML senior vice president Ishwar Pokharel has announced that he will contest for the post of president in the upcoming convention. In the secretariat meeting on Thursday, he formally informed that he will compete for the presidency in the upcoming convention. In the meeting, senior vice-president Pokharel gave a message that the party movement has reached a critical state, and the crisis is deepening due to the leadership's expression and working style, so that he wants to contest to resolve it, informed a member of the meeting.
"We have been maintaining that this complicated situation, this serious situation, this crisis should be reorganized by reorganizing the party," said the official, "there was not much discussion about the vacant leadership." Today President 9oli0 also said I will not leave, I will rise. Comrade Ishwar also said that I am also preparing to wake up.
Senior Vice President Pokharel also gave a message that he is ready to compete while building the established methods, traditions and values within the party and whatever the result may be. I compete. That's the beauty of competition, no matter how you lose. I gladly accept it," Pokharel said in the meeting, "I am also qualified for the competition."
In response, President Oli said that he will not leave the party when the party movement is in crisis and the leadership is under siege from all sides. If you want to compete, do it. I'm not saying don't. But I am not in a position to leave the leadership now. But competition does not benefit the party, the movement and even the individual," Oli said.
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