May 23, Kathmandu – CPN-UML leader Ashtalakshmi Shakya has urged party chairman KP Sharma Oli to respectfully step down from his position. In a status posted on Facebook on Saturday, Shakya criticized Oli’s arrogance, stubbornness, and factional thinking for weakening the party, and strongly called for a generational leadership transition. She recalled that Oli has served as chairman for three terms and emphasized the need to entrust leadership to the younger generation.
“Your thinking of holding on as UML chairman as long as you live is wrong,” Shakya wrote directly addressing Oli. “It would be appropriate for the comrade to take honorable leave from the chairmanship at this meeting. The CPN-UML can be revived; the party, currently sinking into darkness, can rise again.” She sharply criticized Oli’s style of leadership, noting how the party, previously carrying a glorious history, has become weakened after recent elections.
Leader Shakya reminded that UML was founded through the sacrifices, struggles, and blood of millions of its cadres, warning that the party should not be treated as a personal possession or a factional enterprise. She stressed that running the party in the 21st century requires ideas, collectiveness, struggle, and honesty.
Shakya stated that it is time to work selflessly for the country and people’s interests rather than spending time praising individuals or engaging in sycophancy. She concluded that Oli must understand the sentiments of the workers and should not hold the party hostage.
