KATHMANDU, JANUARY 28
The Nepali Congress today formed a 37-member central executive committee to take crucial decisions when the party cannot hold central working committee meeting.
A virtual meeting of the central working committee held this afternoon formed the committee after a proposal was presented by General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa on behalf of party President Sher Bahadur Deuba and attending leaders endorsed it.
There shall be 46 members in the central executive committee.
Party president will nominate seven more members. NC spokesperson and treasurer will automatically be members of the committee.
The party is yet to name its spokesperson. The party president will nominate the treasurer from among the central working committee members.
All NC office bearers - Deuba, vice-presidents Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung, general secretaries Ganga Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma, assistant general secretaries Pharmullah Mansoor, Bhismaraj Angdambe, Uma Kanta Chaudhary, Mahendra Yadav, Mahalaxmi Upadhyay 'Dina', Kishor Singh Rathore, Badri Pandey, and Jeevan Pariyar - automatically became members of the central executive committee.
Deuba proposed 24 leaders as members of the central executive committee, including senior leader Ramchandra Paudel and Shekhar Koirala.
Other central executive committee members of the NC are: Gopal Man Shrestha, Prakash Man Singh, Bimalendra Nidhi, Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar, Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Chitra Lekha Yadav, Ram Sharan Mahat, Arjun Narsingh KC, Prakash Sharan Mahat, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, Bal Bahadur KC, Bal Krishna Khand, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Uma Regmi, Ramesh Rijal, Narayan Khadka, Jip Chhiring Lama, Sujata Koirala, NP Saud, Jeevan Bahadur Shahi, and Ananda Prasad Dhungana.
A version of this article appears in the print on January 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
