By Our Reporter
The central committee meeting of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) concluded on Monday decided to fully devote to the local level election.
The meeting decided to increase the number of members in its central committee to 344 including 85 alternative members.
However, the meeting failed to finalise the names of office bearers, standing committee members and politburo.
The party said that all the office bearers will be elected after local level elections.
Likewise, the meeting decided to discuss the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact only after the election.
With the addition of members, the central committee will have 344 members. Of them, 297 were finalised on Monday. The remaining members will be appointed later.
Only 50 additional members have been added to the new central committee. Of the 50, four are Dalits and nine Madhesi while 37 are from the central representatives to the party’s general convention.
National Assembly members take oath of office
Nineteen National Assembly members elected on January 26 have taken the oath of office on Saturday.
Six members from the Nepali Congress, five from the CPN-Maoist Centre, five from the CPN-Unified Socialist, one each from the CPN-UML, Janata Samajwadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha were elected for the vacant posts in the Upper House. One member is yet to be nominated by the President on the recommendation of the government.
The ruling Nepali Congress is said to have a plan to nominate senior artiste and filmmaker Nir Shah in the vacant post of NA.
The newly-elected NA members from Nepali Congress include Gopal Kumar Basnet, Krishna Prasad Poudel, Kamala Pant, Yuvraj Sharma, Durga Gurung and Narayan Dutta Mishra.
Similarly, Urmila Aryal, Bhuvan Bahadur Sunar, Suresh Alemagar, Nara Bahadur Bista and Jagat Bahadur Parki were elected from the ruling coalition partner CPN-Maoist Centre. Jayantidevi Rai, Gomadevi Timilsina, Rajendra Laxmi Gaire, Uday Bahadur Bohara and Madan Kumari Shah (Garima) were elected from the CPN (Unified Socialist), another ruling coalition partner.
Sonam Geljen Sherpa from CPN-UML, Mohammad Khalid from Janata Samajwadi Party and Tul Prasad Bishwakarma from Rastriya Janamorcha were elected.
All these elected members will serve for the next six years in the Upper House.
One-third of posts of the National Assembly expires every two years. NA chair Timalsina also bade farewell to the twenty lawmakers who completed their four-year tenure on March 5 in the National Assembly. CPN-UML’s Parshuram Meghi Gurung, Agam Prasad Bantawa Rai, Kavita Bogati, Komal Wali, Chakra Prasad Snehi, Nainakala Ojha, Ram Lakhan Chamar and Suman Raj Pyakurel had completed their tenure. Similarly, the tenure of Radheshyam Adhikari, Drig Narayan Pandey and Tara Devi Bhatta from the ruling Nepali Congress also come to an end.
The tenure of NA-vice chair Shashikala Dahal and the tenure of Dinanath Sharma, Khim Kumar BK, Jeevan Budha, Udaya Sharma Poudel, Thagendra Prakash Puri, Shanti Kumari Adhikari GC and Sher Bahadur Kunwar of CPN-Maoist Centre also ended. The tenure of Ram Narayan Bidari who was nominated by the President also expired the same day.
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