KATHMANDU: Majority of the Mahasamiti members of the Nepali Congress (NC) said that they were in favour of electing office bearers and 80 per cent Central Committee (CC) members of the party.

Speaking on the second day of the ongoing Mahasamiti meeting, they said the party must end the system of nomination by president at the CC to make the leaders responsible to the entire party and not only to party president.

The meeting today began discussions on five agendas --

party's revised statute presented by Krishna Prasad Sitaula, report on state restructuring presented by Gopal Man Shrestha, report on fundamental issues of new constitution presented by Chakra Prasad Bastola, resolution on contemporary politics presented by Ram Chandra Poudel and party's organisational report presented by general secretary Bimalendra Nidhi. The discussions on the issues are still underway.

The three-day meeting is likely to be extended by one more day, according to the party sources.

In today's deliberation, a majority of speakers opposed the existing presidential model of the party's working committee, informed general secretary Nidhi. All

office bearers and 50 percent

CC members are nominated

by president as per the model currently in practice.

Of the 34 Mahasimiti members, who delivered their views at today's meeting, most of them pleaded that election system would make the party leaders more accountable and improve the party's efficiency. The members of Morang and Sunsari districts, from where the party president Girija Prasad Koirala hails, opposed the presidential system of leadership. Koirala, however, opposed the proposed model of electing the majority of CC members. They said the election system must be introduced in the party to ensure internal democracy, transparency and efficiency of the party.

Krishna Chandra Nepali of Nawalparasi said, "We have been obeying president Koirala.

But, we are not compelled to obey him in this regard."

On the other hand, those

supporting the presidential model argued that the present model could work more effectively if the decision making process was institutionalised.