Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has floated a proposal to have 14 office bearers.

He floated the proposal during a meeting of the Central Working Committee meeting held at the party office in Sanepa, Lalitpur on Friday.

According to an agreement reached with other leaders, Deuba has proposed a president, two vice-presidents, two general secretaries, eight joint general secretaries and a treasurer.

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All the proposed office bearers except treasurer will be elected through General Convention. The Central Working Committee meeting should endorse the proposal.

The Mahasamiti meeting has been halted for the Central Working Committee meeting.

Earlier in a meeting held this morning, the party leaders had agreed to have 13 office bearers including party president, two vice presidents, two general secretaries, seven joint general secretaries and one treasurer.

Leaders had agreed to have seven joint general secretaries—one each representative from seven different ethnic clusters—and hold election for all the posts except treasurer.