By Our Reporter
The CPN-UML has picked party in-charges in all seven provinces and nominated 45 members in its Standing Committee. It also constituted organisations and politburo.
The authority to name the organisation chiefs, province in-charges and central and standing committee members was given to party chairman KP Sharma Oli.
However, his nominations which included Durga Prasai, owner of the controversial B&C Hospital of Birtamod, was irked the senior party leaders especially those who stayed in UML after the inking of 10-point agreement.
Vice chairs Ishwar Pokharel, Yubaraj Gyawali, Astha Laxmi Shakya, Bishnu Paudel, Subas Nembang, Pradeep Gyawali, and Yogesh Bhattarai are named organisational chiefs.
Likewise, Devraj Ghimire is named as in-charge of Province-1, Raghubir Mahaseth of Province-2, Kashinath Adhikari of Bagmati Province, Padma Aryal of Gandaki Province, Chhabilal Biswokarma of Lumbini Province, Yamlal Kandel of Karnali Province and Lekhraj Bhatta of Suderpaschim Province.
The central committee meeting also nominated party members in its central committee. Leaders Khimlal Bhattrai, Gokul Prasad Baskota, Mahesh Basnet, Arun Nepal, Devi Gyawali, Parsurammeghi Gurung, Purushottam Paudel, Aananda Pokharel, Lila Giri, Jagat Bishwokarma and Kamal Chaulagain among others were nominated in the central committee.
Other those nominated in the central committee include Balkrishna Dhungel, Kishori Rijal, Jit Bahadur Gautam, Binod Shrestha, Suman Pyakurel, Bhairabsundar Shrestha, Ramdayal Mandal, Dal Bahadur Rana, Gokul Gharti and Baijnath Chaudhary.
The party also nominated Standing Committee members of the party. Ghanshyam Bhusal, Guru Baral, Yubaraj Ghimire, Bhim Acharya, Lalbabu Pandit, Khagraj Pandey, Kiran Gurung, Kashinath Adhikari, Raghuji Pantha and Bhanubhakta Dhakal were nominated in the Standing Committee.
Leaders Sherdhan Rai, Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Prabhu Sah, Rajan Bhattarai, Sita Paudel, Mani Chandra Thapa, Yamlal Kandel, Agni Kharel, Brinda Pandey and Gorakh Bogati were also nominated in its Standing Committee.
Karna Thapa, Rajendra Gautam, Thammaya Thapa, Sher Bahadur Tamang, Hikmat Karki and Dr. Shivamaya Tumbahamphe were also nominated in the Standing Committee. But leaders like Tanka Karki were not nominated in any committee. Even Bhim Rawal was denied the post of province in-charge of Sudurpaschim. Lekhraj Bhatta was given the responsibility there.
The newly nominated members and others took the oath of office on Wednesday.
Maoist Center organising national convention as it concluded provincial conventions
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) is now preparing to hold its national-level general convention after it completed its province-level convention.
However, the party failed to elect chiefs of Province 1 and Karnali because of a dispute in the province-level convention.
The party completed its first provincial conference in seven geographical and two other non-geographical provinces by electing new committees unopposed.
But some provinces could not announce the names of province chairs and office bearers because of internal disputes. However, province committee members were named in all provinces.
Jagat Simkhada has been elected as chairperson of Valley Special Province. Surendra Basnet has been elected as the secretary while Sangeeta Khadka, Krishna Raj KC and Prakash Pandey have been elected as the vice-chairpersons.
The 141-member province committee was unanimously announced by Dr. Jagat Krishna Pokharel, head of the election committee, Lekhnath Neupane, chairperson of the convention organising committee said. A total of 640 delegates including the organisers participated in the conference of the valley special province.
Likewise, Gayatri Gurung has been elected unanimously as the chairperson of Gandaki Province Committee.
A 229-member committee has been formed under Gurung for Gandaki. The first meeting of the committee declared Gurung as chairperson although many other leaders were interested in the post in the close session.
Likewise, the Lumbini Province Conference of the party elected a 217-member provincial committee. However, the office-bearers of the committee were not named because of a large number of aspirants.
Similarly, the convention of Province 1 was extended as no agreement was reached regarding chairperson and office bearers while in Karnali election to province chief was postponed.
However, an agreement has been reached to form a 269-member committee in Province-1
Likewise, the 275-member province committee was unanimously elected in Bagmati Province.
The party’s provincial conventions were held in Biratnagar of Province 1, Janakpur of Province 2, Kathmandu of Bagmati Province, Pokhara of Gandaki Province, Bhaluwang of Lumbini Province, Surkhet of Karnali and Dhangadi of Sudurpachim Province
What next for RPP? Will Kamal Thapa open a new party?
Former chairman of Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Kamal Thapa is yet to overcome the shocking defeat in the recently held general convention.
He was defeated by Rajendra Lingden, but he is still unable to digest the defeat and has been blaming one after another for his legal exit from the party leadership.
Thapa, who accused former king Gyanendra of intervening in the convention and defeating him immediately after his defeat. Now he has put forth impossible demands with newly elected party chair Lingden that the latter should probe whether the Nirmal Niwas had its hand in the outcome of the convention results.
His unusual activities after the conclusion of the convention have worried the leaders, cadres and well-wishers of the party whether he will again break the party because he had already earned a bad name in the breaking party.
Although he had once sworn by touching the Gita that he would never break the party, many within and outside the party suspect him.
While Thapa has not been able to accept the defeat, new party chair Lingden is trying to bring back all dissident leaders on board so that the issues of the Hindu Kingdom could be pushed more effectively.
He is said to be taking an initiative to develop a greater front of pro-Hindu Kingdom groups to realize the political ideology of the party and his promises.
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