According to politicians participating in the meeting, the gathering has decided not to let the nomination proposal made by NC President Sushil Koirala get passed through the CWC meeting unless a package deal is reached with the Deuba-faction.[break]
Nearly three dozen CWC members and sitting lawmakers close to Deuba participated in the meeting. K B Gurung and Arjun Narsingh KC, who are deemed close to Sushil Koirala, were also present. Saturday´s gathering comes after a similar gathering on Friday of the party´s district presidents close to Deuba.
The meeting discussed what strategy to adopt if the party president takes any unilateral decision on nominations. “The nomination proposal of NC President Koirala has not come in accordance with the party statute,” said Ramesh Rijal, who participated in the meeting. “We have decided to foil the nomination proposal unless it is corrected.”
Koirala has proposed Ram Chandra Poudel as vice president and Krishna Prasad Sitaula as general-secretary. The CWC meeting was put off last week after the CWC found itself sharply divided over the proposal.
The meeting at Budhanilakantha, however, has decided to settle the nomination row in consensus. “We should move ahead in consensus. There has been a decision to forge a consensus with President Koirala over nominations to be made in the party,” said CWC member Pushpa Bhusal, who was present at the meeting.
Party leaders close to the Deuba faction have expressed dissatisfaction over Koirala´s failure to come up with a concrete proposal on a package deal for nominations in the party despite his meetings with Deuba and others close to Deuba in the past few days.
The Deuba faction has demanded proportionate representation in the party´s parliamentary board and in nominations for the chiefs of various departments within the party, the work performance committee and 20 CWC members to be nominated by the party president.
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