Lalitpur: Discussion continues on the matters concerning the former President Bidya Devi Bhandari and party organization in today’s meeting of the central committee of the ruling CPN (UML).
According to National News Agency Nepal, on the second day of the meeting at the UML central office in Chyasal, Lalitpur, 58 central members expressed their views on party vice-chair Bishnu Prasad Paudel’s statute amendment proposal and general secretary Shanker Prasad Pokharel’s organizational proposal reports. This information was shared by party publicity department chief Rajendra Gautam during a press conference.
On the first day, 49 central members had already shared their remarks on the proposals. A total of 77 central members still need to deliberate on the documents presented at the meeting.
Gautam informed that in today’s meeting, central members voiced their opinions on issues including former President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s return to UML’s active politics, party membership, and the arrangement of organized members. “The central members emphatically raised the issue of transforming party’s subordinate committees such as electoral constituency coordination committees and province electoral constituency coordination committees into the executive committee in consistent with the Constitution,” he shared.
The central members also discussed issues related to the government’s performance and price inflation during the meeting. It is noteworthy that the party secretariat and politburo meetings had already endorsed the statute amendment proposal of the vice-chair and the organizational report of the general secretary.
The meeting is set to conclude after an address by party chair KP Sharma Oli later today, as stated by Gautam.