The party´s top leaders at a standing committee meeting had decided to promote Subas Nembang, Bhim Rawal, Dharmanath Prasad Sah, Kiran Gurung, Radha Gyawali, Gorakh Bahadur Bogati and Krishna Gopal Shrestha to politburo and subsequently floated the same proposal at the CC meeting.
But, failing to get the proposal endorsed, the leaders eventually left the issued to be decided through next round of meeting. [break]
The CC meeting, however, passed the proposal to nominate Ratneshwar Goit, who recently joined UML, as CC member. Former UML leader Goit had joined the Tarai-Madhes Democratic Party as assistant general secretary but returned to the UML earlier this month.”Other leaders did not oppose the proposed names but claimed that there are some other members who must not be excluded,” a participant at the meeting told Republica requesting anonymity.
Other names proposed by the members were Beduram Bhusal, Naresh Kharel, Khagraj Adhikari, Ganesh Timilsena, Raghubir Mahaseth and Yogesh Bhattarai, among others. Also, Jagannath Khatiwada proposed his candidacy for the post of alternative politburo member.
During the discussion, some leaders also suggested to the party leadership to expand the standing committee and to make the top body inclusive. Keshav Devkota proposed nominating Nembang to the post of vice-chairperson that has remained vacant since the erstwhile vice-chairperson Ashok Rai quit the party. He also suggested to the leadership to nominate Dharmanath Prasad Sah and Chhavilal Bishwakarma as standing committee members. Jitu Gautam and Keshav Badal seconded Devkota´s proposal.
But this proposal also couldn´t be endorsed as other members argued that some leaders, including Mukunda Neupane, Pradeep Nepal, Keshav Badal and Asta Laxmi Shakya also deserved the position.
"UML to win 106 seats"
UML secretary Shankar Pokharel, on behalf of the party´s secretariat, presented the report of the nationwide election survey conducted by the party.
According to the finding, the UML will emerge as the largest party by winning at least 106 seats under the first-past-the-post electoral system in the coming elections.
“This is a preliminary survey and we will further verify and follow up after the election commission brings out the voters list with photographs,” said CC member Khatiwada. “This time around, UML´s position in the grassroots is quite encouraging because our local bodies are actively working in villages across the country.”
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