Miscellaneous
UML taskforce decides CC nominees
Seven months after the party’s general convention, a CPN-UML taskforce has finalised the names of leaders to be nominated as Central CommitteeThe taskforce led by Chairman KP Oli made some changes to the proposal tabled by UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokharel. After the party’s Standing Committee failed to come up with consensus candidates for central positions, the team was formed on Tuesday. Party senior leaders Jhala Nath Khanal and Madhav Kumar Nepal, Vice-chairpersons Bam Dev Gautam and Bidhya Bhandari and General Secretary Pokharel are on the panel.
A meeting of the taskforce agreed on the names. Pokharel said the decisions would be endorsed after discussion at a Standing Committee on Wednesday. The party statute provisions 15 nominees in the CC. Kedar Sanjel, Ghanen-dra Basnet, Devraj Ghimire, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Suman Pyakurel and Dev Shankar Pokharel are said to be among the probables.