According to senior NC leader Nara Hari Acharya, a meeting of the NC leaders held on Sunday to incorporate the suggestions in Statute Amendment Proposal prepared by Krishna Prasad Sitaula-led committee made an agreement to this effect.
Acharya said while 71 members would be directly elected through the party´s general convention, 16 other members will be elected by the CWC. As per the new statute of the party, six members to be elected should be below 40 years.
Currently, the NC has 75 members, including 10 invited members in the CWC. During unification of the party with then NC (Democratic), it was agreed that 25 additional members would be appointed in the CWC. However, the members are yet to be appointed. Two other major parties -- UCPN (Maoist) and CPN-UML-- have a 137 and 108-member CC, respectively.
The meeting also reached an agreement to appoint all five office bearers including president, vice president, general secretary, joint general secretary and treasurer through election.
The NC has a provision to elect the party president only, who is authorized to nominate 50 percent of the total office bearers on his discretion. Among others, the meeting also agreed to set 11 general convention representatives from each electoral region.
Acharya said the meeting would continue on Monday to finalize other contentious issues in the draft statute of the party.
The draft statute holds special importance as it will be presented to the upcoming Mahasamiti meeting scheduled for November 1-3 in Kathmandu for amendment in the party´s statute.
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