KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress senior leaders have made an insistence on holding the three-tier elections with the endorsement of the Constitution amendment bill registered in the Legislature-Parliament. At the inaugural ceremony of the Congress District Treasurers' First National Conference here coinciding with NC saint leader Krishna Prasad Bhattarai's 93rd birth anniversary, NC leaders pointed out that it would be mandatory to hold local, provincial and federal level elections by January 2018 for bringing the Constitution into effect. On the occasion, NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba said the Constitution's full implementation was possible only if the three-tier elections could take place within the timeframe set by the Constitution in agreement among all the parties. Accusing the CPN-UML of moving against the proposal for provincial border demarcation, Deuba questioned, 'For how many days will they continue to obstruct the Parliament? Don't they have any responsibility? The Parliament must function to give the country an outlet.' At the programme, NC senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel spoke of the increasing distrust among the parties on serious subjects of the country resulting in the current impasse. He said the parties did not have any option to come together to institutionalise the achievements of various democratic uprisings. 'It will be fatal for the country if we distrust the people of Tarai on provincial demarcation,' Poudel cautioned. 'It will be fatal for the country if we distrust the people of Tarai on provincial demarcation,' Paudel cautioned. NC General Secretary Shashanka Koirala said the parties must hold serious discussions under the NC's leadership as the largest party to unravel the present political knot. NC Treasurer and Minister for Peace and Reconstruction, Sita Devi Yadav, urged the party's treasurers at all the levels to remember the fact that it is an important responsibility to collect fund, spend transparently and keep efficient records. The conference to run for two days would discuss economic management and system under practice in the national and international levels to streamline the economic management pertaining to submission of money to party from party's ministers. During the conference, the participants would seek ways to make the donation campaign for financial management free of fear and threat, making public the income and expenditure for transparency, the Conference Coordinator Govinda Pudasaini said.