KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress rescheduled conventions of the party's lower committees.

The party, however, has not changed the date for its 13th national general convention, September 19-22.

According the new schedule, the party will hold VDC and municipal conventions on September 3 and constituency conventions on September 8.

The district conventions will take place on September 11, according to the plan.

The party had organised an emergency joint meeting of the Central Working Committee and Parliamentary Party to discuss the issue today.

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NC mulls over deferring lower committee conventions

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Central Working Committee and Parliamentary Party held a joint meeting at the Prime Minister's official residence in Baluwatar this morning.

The meeting is discussing whether to reschedule conventions of lower level committees without affecting the date of the party's 13th national general convention.

The largest party of the Constituent Assembly has scheduled its 13th general convention for September 19-22.

Emerging from the meeting, NC CWC member Gagan Kumar Thapa said the party began thinking over postponements of village, municipal, constituency and district committee conventions as the schedule is likely to be affected by the CA's plan for constitution promulgation.

The party had decided that it would hold conventions of its ward, village and municipal committees on August 18.

Likewise, the constituency committee conventions and district committee conventions were scheduled for August 24 and 27 respectively.

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Meanwhile, the party authorised the leadership to work on revising the draft constitution in consultation with other major parties.

The meeting has urged the leaders to consider people's feedback, lawmakers' suggestions and the party's past decisions while revising the draft, according to a statement issued after the meeting.