INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, July 30
Senior leader of Nepali Congress Ram Chandra Paudel and party General Secretary Shashank Koirala today wrote a joint
letter to the party President Sher Bahadur Deuba, saying they had lost confidence that the upcoming 14th National Convention of the party
would be held in a free, fair and impartial manner.
The leaders organised a press conference after submitting their memorandum to the
president at the party office
They said it was important for the party to distribute active membership in a transparent manner and carry out its activities as per the
party statute and rules.
They said all party bodies, including President Deuba had become caretaker office bearers as the tenure of the
current leadership and all party bodies had already ended in mid-March
Paudel and Koirala also opposed formation of some party departments arguing that as per the party statute, Deuba was supposed to form all
departments of the party within six months, but he has been forming the departments even after the end of the tenure of the central
Recently, Deuba had nominated office bearers in some party bodies and had also formed the Senior Politicians Assembly.
Paudel and Koirala
accused Deuba of forming party departments to influence the result of the upcoming national convention in his favour
They reminded Deuba of the dissolution of the party departments by former president Sushil Koirala after Deuba opposed the formation of the
departments in the third year of Koiralas four year tenure
They wrote in their letter that formation of party departments, nomination of office bearers and creation of posts in party bodies at a time
when the date for the next National Convention has already been fixed, was a violation of party statute.
They said the party had been
distributing active membership to party cadres in some districts, but in other districts the party had not been distributing active
membership to the deserving candidates
They also demanded that all NC diaspora organisations should hold their conventions before they could be eligible to be elected as National
Convention representatives
They also demanded that all bodies of the party should hold their conventions without further delay.
A version of this article appears in
e-paper on July 31, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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