Miscellaneous
UCPN (M) nat'l convention: Meeting underway to pick CC members
A meeting of the UCPN (Maoist) national convention organising committee is underway to select the Central Committee (CC) members. The closed session has been postponed until Tuesday.Ekantipur Report
The organising committee will select and present the names of 99 CC members for approval. The chances of holding polls to elect the CC are minimal even though the young leaders had earlier demanded for polls to elect the CC members.
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had earlier tabled a political document at the ongoing national convention where leaders divided in 22 different groups floated their opinion on the political report .
Chairman Dahal answered to the questions raised during the discussions.
Earlier, the election committee had made preparations to hold polls for the election of the central committee members of the party following pressure from the youth leaders 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.