22 groups have been made for group discussion on Dahal's political report. Spokesperson Dinanath Sharma informed that Chairman Dahal will answer to the questions raised during group discussion tomorrow.

Yesterday, the election committee had made preparations to hold polls for the election of the central committee members of the party.

The election committee became active after the youth leaders exerted pressure on the party leadership to select central members through election and not via consensus.

As per the UCPN (Maoist) party statute, 74 will be directly elected while the rest 24 will be nominated in the 99-member CC.

The closed session at the ongoing national convention in Biratnagar had finally begun on Friday after being delayed for hours following dispute over the legitimacy of the district convention representatives and failure to submit levy.