Kathmandu, Jan 26 : A meeting of the Nepali Congress central working committee (CWC) scheduled for January 29 has been postponed citing a special reason.

According to NC central office chief secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel, the meeting has been put off due to special circumstances until a further notice.

Kathmandu, Aug 12. The ruling Nepali Congress has called a meeting of the party’s central working committee at 2:00 pm today. According to NC office chief secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel, the schedule of the party’s 14th general convention and election guideline will be presented at the meeting.

The Congress has made public the schedule of the 14th General Convention to be held in Kathmandu from September 1 to 4. According to the schedule, the village/municipal ward convention was scheduled for July 27, the rural municipality/municipality convention for July 31, and the provincial assembly regional convention for August 4.

Similarly, the regional convention of the House of Representatives was scheduled to be held on August 7, the district convention with only one constituency on August 10, the district convention with more than one constituency and the provincial convention on August 17 and 18. The convention schedule so far has been affected by the active membership dispute. Therefore, the new schedule of the General Convention will be discussed in the meeting.

The 13th General Convention of the Nepali Congress was held in Kathmandu in March, 2016. According to the party statute, the Congress had extended the term for one year and after the expiration of the term in March extended again for six months as per the provisions of the Statute. RSS/File Photo

The government is releasing whitepaper incorporating the economic details of the country. Minister for Finance Janardan Sharma is releasing the whitepaper (Fact Paper) highlighting the current economic situation of the country in the meeting of the House of Representatives today.

The HoR meeting is taking place at 1pm today. According to Shreedhar Neupane, press expert of the Speaker Agni Sapkota, the Finance Minister has asked for the time to issue the whitepaper in the parliament meeting.
The government for the first time is issuing a whitepaper after the formation of new government led by Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.

Minister Sharma said the government is issuing the whitepaper incorporating the reality of the economic situation of the country rather than to blame others.

Kathmandu, July 27: The Nepali Congress (NC) has provided the party active membership to 852 thousand 711 people across the country. The membership was granted in view of the party’s upcoming General Convention scheduled on September 1 to 4.

A report submitted to party President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by the Active Membership Investigation Committee coordinator Ramesh Lekhak states that 443 thousand 678 have taken the new membership while 409 thousand 33 have got their membership renewed.

Now, the number of the active male members in the party is 653 thousand 438 followed by 199 thousand 97 women and 176 are categorised as others.

Province-wise number of active members

Province 1: 174,782

Province 2: 112,946

Bagamati: 186,143

Gandaki: 118,633

Lumbini: 130,885

Karnali: 54,566

Sudurpaschim: 74,756

The members belong to 16 to 75 years of age.
During its work, the Committee had received 46 sorts of complaints and grievances about the new members.

Kathmandu, July 27 : The office bearers and ex-office bearers of Nepali Congress are meeting today to discuss the schedule of general convention.

The meeting is beginning at 10:00am at Budhanilakantha, private residence of Prime Minister and party President Sher Bahadur Deuba. Chief Secretary of party central office, Krishna Prasad Poudel, has informed that the meeting would discuss the new schedule of 14th general convention of the party.

The meeting of the office bearers held last Saturday had postponed the convention schedule at sub-national level to be implemented from today reasoning that the dispute on active membership was not settled. However, it remained mute on schedule of the central general convention.

After the row over active membership at lower levels of the party is settled, the meeting of the office bearers will take decision on new schedule and forward the decision to the central committee for the endorsement. RSS

Kathmandu, Sept 4 : The Nepali Congress parliamentary party has expressed regrets over the incident of violent clash that occurred at Pulchowk on Thursday between the locals and the police on the topic of pulling the chariot of the Rato Machchhindranath deity.

The chief whip of the party, Bal Krishna Khand, stated in a press release today that the sad incident happened due to the lack of the required coordination among all the sides concerned including the administration, the festival organisers and the local levels.

He said there should have been proper coordination in matter of conducting important traditional festival like the Rato Machchhindranath jatra. The Nepali Congress parliamentary party has urged all sides concerned to seek an outlet through talks and dialogue for continuing the Rato Machchhindranath chariot procession ritual by adopting the highest level of precaution and maintaining physical distance in view of the risk of coronavirus. RSS File Photo

Kathmandu, July 2 : The main opposition Nepali Congress has said that the sudden ending of the ongoing session of the federal parliament was unfortunate, as many important bills including the resolution to face the challenges brought about by Corona Virus and MCC were under consideration.

The main opposition was not consulted neither was any prior notice given, says a statement issued by NC spokesperson Biswa Prakash Sharma. “It is not only sad, but condemnable that the ill-effect of the dispute within the ruling party has impacted the parliament session.”

The entire parliament should have come up with a common approach and a better strategy to address the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed many and infected thousands in the country. But the hassled ending of the ongoing session shed lights on the government’s profound ignorance towards the situation.

“The Nepali Congress expresses its disagreement towards the hurried ending of the federal parliament session, as it questions the Prime Minister whether people’s life is more important or the politics of power,” adds the statement.(RSS)

KATHMANDU, June 25 : Lawmakers at the National Assembly have shown severe concern over the manhandling of dalit rights defenders by police persons at Prime Minister’s residence, Baluwatar.

In the zero hour of the NA meeting, Nepali Congress lawmaker Prakash Panth demanded stern action against those involved in Soti carnage. He also sought response by the Home Minister on police intimidation on peaceful protest of Dalit rights defenders at Baluwatar.

Similarly, ruling Nepal Communist Party lawmakers Dil Kumari Rawal, Dulasa Kumari Dahal and Maya Prasad Sharma spoke on the contemporary issues including the need to control violence and corruption occurred in different parts of the country.RSS