NC general convention next year

KATHMANDU, Sept 7 - Following tremendous pressure from its leaders Narahari Acharya and Pradeep Giri, Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday decided to hold its 12th general convention by September 1 next year.  According to NC leader Binaya Dhoj Chand, Acharya and Giri during the meeting urged ...

...party leadership to fix a date and venue for the party's Mahasamiti meeting immediately to prepare for the general convention and warned of writing note of dissent if the party fails to announce a date.  But most of the party members including acting President Sushil Koriala and senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba persuaded the leaders to hold a general convention within a year instead of holding the Mahasamiti meeting.

Chand said the next CWC meeting would fix the date and venue for the general convention. "Prior to this, the party will launch a nationwide campaign to strengthen the party organization and resolve all internal disputes by mid-January.

The CWC also took a number of decisions related to the party's future course. It has also decided to form seven different committees including two major panels comprising experts to draft the party's views on federalism, restructuring the state and writing a new constitution.

"The constitution drafting committee and the committee to work on state restructuring will hold interactions at various levels and submit their reports to the party within three months," Chand said.  "The meeting has decided to collaborate with all political parties in the Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution and take the ongoing peace process to a logical end," party Spokesman Arjun Narsingh KC said. The party would play an effective role of opposition within and outside the parliament in coordination with other parties to safeguard democracy, the people's sovereignty and rule of law, he said.

Similarly, the party has decided to form all party departments and panels to amend the parliamentary party statute, monitor government's activities, the ongoing peace process and the human rights the situation and situation of conflict victims.

Acting President Koirala would make such panels after consulting President Girija Prasad Koirala and other party leaders, Chand added. It has also decided to declare all party cadres and common people who were killed by  the Maoists during the insurgency period martyrs.

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