Kathmandu. In the second week of August, Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Chairman Upendra Yadav had said from Janakpurdham, the temporary headquarters of Province 2, “JSP will join the government after September 8.” Yadav, who reached Sindhulimadi on August 13 after the deadline, said that the ordinance on party split was an obstacle for his participation in the government.
According to political analysts, Yadav had put forward this condition after assessing the possibility of the party splitting again. He argues that if the Council of Ministers is expanded without the repeal of the ordinance on party split, the parties will split and democracy will be endangered.
Politician Khusilal Mandal says, “As long as the party split ordinance is in force, there is a fear of splitting the party.” This fear must have happened not only to Upendra Yadav, but to everyone. ‘ Upendra Yadav, who has suffered the most from the split since the dawn of time, has been haunted by the fear of splitting.
Both the parties have split on the basis of an ordinance on the split of political parties brought by the government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba to facilitate the split of UML and JSP. According to the ordinance, in order to split a party, 20 percent of the members of the party’s central committee or parliamentary party have to be identified.
On this basis, the UML has split into the CPN (Unified Socialist Party) and the Jaspa Nepal has split into the Democratic Socialist Party (LOSPA). The list of aspiring ministers is long after these parties join the government.
Jaspa Nepal is still skeptical about the ordinance due to fears that the party may split due to the unnamed minister. Political analysts say that JSP Nepal could not select the name of the minister to be sent to the government because of the ordinance. There are many aspiring ministers in Jaspa. After the party finalized the name of the minister, the disgruntled group, who could not become a minister, is harassing Jaspa Chairman Yadav for fear of splitting the party again.
Now it is enough to have five MPs to divide the party. There are 24 MPs in the House of Representatives and the National Assembly. Two of them are suspended. In the 503-member Central Committee, there are 101 members.
During the split, Yadav has assured to make most of the lawmakers drawn from Mahanta Thakur’s side ministers. The old leaders of the JSP, who have always been with Yadav, are also aspiring for ministers, so the five are dissatisfied and want to split the party.
Chairman Yadav does not want to take any risk as he sees that there are many aspirants for the ministry and few get the ministry.
