UML’s 9th GC :Oli Panel announces candidacy for senior posts

Kathmandu, May 19. The KP Sharma Oli panel of the CPN-UML announced candidacies for different senior posts of the party for the Ninth General Convention scheduled to be held in July.

Speaking at a press meet in the Capital on Monday, party Vice Chairperson Biddya Bhandari claimed that the UML Parliamentary Party leader KP Sharma Oli would be unanimously elected the UML party Chairman in the General Convention. She also announced the name of the UML leaders Bam Dev Gautam and Ishwor Pokhrel respectively as the candidates for the Senior Vice Chairman and the General Secretary of the party.

Bhandari said if Oli’s name was announced also in the support of the UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, there could be support in the process of democratising the party and handing over the party leadership to the new generation.

Bhandari said senior leader Nepal had worked as the powerful General Secretary of the UML since 2056 B.S. and showed his capacity and that the party needed new leadership. She assured that leader Oli would work as the party chairman for a single term and would encourage the ‘one post one responsibility’ practice in the party.

It was announced at the programme to have the leadership handed over in the party’s upcoming general congress while giving continuity to the alliance that backed leader Oli in the UML parliamentary party election. RSS