INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, September 5
The Ramchandra Paudel-led faction of the Nepali Congress today held a virtual meeting to devise strategies to
challenge party President Sher Bahadur Deubas lsquo;interference in distribution of active membership and appointment of loyalists to the
partys departments to shore up support in his favour ahead of the 14th National Convention of the party.
Deuba is preparing to contest the
partys presidency again.
A leader close to Paudel said on condition of anonymity that they discussed options on how they should pile
pressure on Deuba to force him to rescind the recent appointments Deuba made in several of the partys departments.
The leader said the
Paudel factions pressure tactics would aim at ensuring that the partys National Convention was held on time.
The leader said the Deuba
faction was trying to unfairly distribute the partys active membership and it had halted distribution of active membership in eight
districts of Province 2.
He said they discussed their pressure tactics against the Deuba faction and if Deuba did not address their
concerns, they would stage sit-in, relay hunger strike and hold mass meetings at district and regional levels to make party cadres aware of
the high-handedness of the establishment faction.
Another NC leader said on condition of anonymity that Deuba and NC Vice-president
Bimalendra Nidhi were unfairly appointing new entrants to high party positions to distribute active membership, which would ultimately ruin
the party.
The leader said Deubas faction was indulging in unfair practices not in one or two districts but many districts and that was the
reason the Paudel faction wanted to protest against the establishment faction.
The leader said that Deuba was making appointments in the
partys departments after four-and-ahalf years, when the regular tenure of the party leadership had already ended and his acts were against
the partys rules and norms.
We are committed to democracy and rule of law, but in our own party there is no democracy and rule of law, the
He said conventions of the sister wings of the party had not been held even after six years and the party leadership was to be blamed for
this.
Paudel faction leaders said that they would hold another meeting in a couple of day and decide how to proceed further against the
unfair decisions of the establishment faction.
The NC has decided to hold its National Convention from February 19 to 22 in Kathmandu.
A
version of this article appears in e-paper on September 6, 2020, of The Himalayan Times.
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