The party´s parliamentary board members also struggled hard to pick candidate for Tanahun constituency number 1 as party leaders Shankar Bhandari and Govinda Raj Joshi staked claim to the same constituency. A group of cadres loyal to Bhandari had even staged protest outside party headquarters in Sanepa following a news reports that Joshi was given election ticket from the constituency. [break]
“Discussions are under way to finalize the selection process. There has been delay in making the list public due to some disputes among parliamentary board members in picking candidates from various constituencies of Kailali, Kanchanpur, Doti and Dhanusha districts,” said one of the leaders in the parliamentary board.
The leader, however, did not clarify what those disputes were.
However, a group of irate NC cadres had staged sit-in protest outside the main gate of NC headquarters in Sanepa Monday afternoon protesting against the preparation by the parliamentary board to pick President Dr Ram Baran Yadav´s son Dr Chandra Mohan Yadav as candidate from constituency number 5 of Dhanusha district. Alleging that Mahendra Yadav, who was orignially nominated by NC Dhanusha district committee was denied the opportunity to contest the polls, the cadres also chanted strong slogans against President Yadav.
Among other things, they had demanded that President Dr Yadav stop interfering in the party´s internal affairs and top leaders of the party uphold party´s statute and regulations. A large number of police personnel were deployed in the NC headquarters as dissenting party cadres staged protests and shouted strong slogans against the party leadership.
Sources close to the leaders involved in finalizing the list of poll candidates under FPTP said the differences seen in Bajhang, constituency number 2 of Okhaldhunga district, were resolved amicably. It is, however, not clear how those differences were settled by the board.
While a group of cadres staged protests outside the party office against the proposed nomination of Arjun Jung Bahadur Singh from Bajhang constituency number 1, dispute arose after Ram Hari Khatiwada and Pradip Rai staked claim to constituency number 2 of Okhaldhunga district. Local activists from Bajhang meanwhile said this will be the fifth time Singh will be contesting from Bajhang and demanded that a new candidate should be picked for the constituency.
While the parliamentary board members were busy selecting poll candidates in the party´s headquarters in Sanepa, a group of cadres in Syangja padlocked the party´s district committee office alleging that the board was preparing to pick someone other than nominated by them for constituency no. 1 in the district.
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