Nepali Congress Central Committee meet discusses process of giving party tickets for local poll

Nepali Congress Central Committee meet discusses process of giving party tickets for local poll

Kathmandu, March 27: Discussions in today's session of the Nepali Congress central committee (CC) meeting focused on the process of giving party tickets for the upcoming local level election scheduled for May 14 this year.

 Party central members present in the meeting put their views on the 'appropriate ways' for giving party tickets to possible candidates from ward to metropolitan-level, according to party's Central Office Secretariat.

 The majority voice was for distributing tickets to candidates for municipal, sub metropolitan and metropolitan level from the centre and forming a mechanism at the district-level to give tickets for the ward and rural municipality level, as said by central member Surendra Raj Pandey. 

The meeting has been in place since Sunday.  Issues of restructuring party's organisational structure, process of selection of election candidates, the mobilisation of party sister wings and well wishers for the election purpose are other agenda of the meeting. 

Earlier the meeting constituted a central election mobilisation committee under the convenorship of party senior leader Ramchandra Poudel in view of the local level election.

A committee headed by Central member Mahesh Acharya has been formed to prepare a party manifesto for the local-level election, Office Chief Secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel said.

Likewise, the meeting Sunday itself formed a 29-meber central works execution committee headed by party President Sher Bahadur Deuba. 

In today's session, central members Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Deepak Giri, Balkrishna Khand, Ananda Raj Dhungana, Mohan Basnet and Surepndra Raj Pandey put their views on a report presented by President Deuba and other contemporary issues.