BIRGUNJ, Jan 20: The National Convention of Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) concluded here on Tuesday after unanimously re-electing Upendra Yadav as chairman of the party and electing 31 Central Working Committee members after following a hard-negotiated consensus.
Bijay Gachchhadar is a notable name missing from the CWC. [break]
The party also formed a disciplinary committee and accounts committee under Dr Shivji Yadav of Mahottari and Abhiskek Prasad Sah of Kapilvastu respectively. Each of the committees has five members.
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The consensus over names of the 31 members was reached after hard closed-door negotiations beginning 4 p.m. Tuesday after earlier effort to strike a consensus failed. There were 149 candidates for 31 posts in the CWC of what is arguably the largest party in Madhes and fourth largest party in the Constituent Assembly (and Legislature-Parliament).
The election for the 31 posts was to begin at about 4 p.m. The election committee of the party authorized the party chairman Yadav to select the members for the CWC.
"I will fight against discrimination prevailing in Himal (mountains), Pahad (hills) and Madhes (plains)," said Chairman Yadav.
Prior to the National Convention, the MPRF was racked by internal feud with some senior members challenging Yadav´s leadership. Tuesday´s events have strengthened the party chairman´s supremacy.
The new CWC:
Chairman: Upendra Yadav
Members:
1. J P Gupta
2. Sharad Singh Bhandari
3. Renu Kumari Yadav
4. Ram Janam Chaudhari
5. Bharatendu Mallik
6. Ram Lal Sotiyar
7. Jitendra Narayan Yadav
8. Khalid Siddiqui
9. Bijay Kumar Yadav
10. Jai Prakash Yadav
11. Ratneshwar Goit
12. Sanjay Kumar Sah
13. Ravindra Thakur
14. Rameshwar Raya Yadav
15. Ravindra Yadav
16. Abdul Jabbar
17. Ganesh Yadav
18. Ramsahay Yadav
19. Asha Chaturvedi
20. Lal Babu Raut
21. Chandrika Yadav
22. Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha
23. Sahas Ram Yadav
24. Mohammad Istihaq Raya
25. Tilak Rawal
26. R C Yadav
27. Nasir Siddiqui
28. Upendra Jha
29. Rajeshwari Jaiswal
30. Kabuli Paswan
31. Gipsi Chaudhari
