The party has sent out representatives to the 240 election constituencies with a mandate to suggest five possible names of candidates with an order of preference. At the same time, the party central committee has also sent a circular to the party district committees and state committees to suggest possible candidates. [break]
The state and district committees and the representatives sent by the centre have been directed to submit the names for candidates by August 26.
"The party decision is contradictory;" Suk Bahadur Roka Magar, who was sent to Kaski constituency 1, told Republica. And the representatives are in a dilemma whether to recommend names or not.
"We will counteract if our recommendations are not accepted. We want candidates who can win elections," said another representative. According to the representatives, they will be arguing that their recommendations are based on facts, and they will also furnish the reasons for their recommendations.
The UCPN(Maoist) had decided to send representatives to the 240 election constituencies in different districts, arguing that the leaders of the districts concerned would only come up with partial reports [for purposes of the election], including the recommendation of candidates.
But in reality, the representatives were sent to the different districts to neutralize criticism by lower ranks of the decisions of the party´s top leadership.
It may be recalled that the party´s last plenum had exceeded the mandate of the Hetauda general assembly in dissolving its top body of office-bearers and also in deciding not to form the politburo and the standing committee.
According to representatives, they have recommended possible names in accordance with seniority, activeness, contribution to the movement and also likelihood of winning elections.
"There is no point recommending names for candidates at a time when a meeting of the district committee is going to be held [on Tuesday] and its decision will be forwarded through the state committee to party head office," said another representative, arguing that they are being sent out just to keep them engaged.
"We are on the outside. How can we know the realities of a particular constituency? We have formed our views in accordance with what the local leaders said," said another representative.
They also said that there will not be any problem if two different recommendations turn out to be the same. But if they are not the same, it will create problems.
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