NC president Koirala nominates nine for CWC members

Nepali Congress (NC) president Sushil Koirala has nominated nine persons for the post of Central Working Committee (CWC) members Monday evening in a bid to thwart Sher Bahadur Deuba camp's pressure to forward Deuba as the party's prime ministerial candidate.

President Koirala nominated new CWC members, most of them loyal to him, to have a comfortable majority in the CWC if a situation of voting comes to decide the next prime ministerial candidate.

Those nominated include Bhim Bahadur Tamang, defeated in the race for president in the general convention, Bimalendra Nidhi and Narhari Acharya, defeated in the race for general secretary and Padhma Narayan Chaudhary, defeated in the race for treasurer.

Likewise, president Koirala has nominated Krishna Tamrakar, Dil Bahadur Gharti, Pharmullah Mansoor, Gopal Raj Pahadi and Leela Koirala as CWC members. The nominations need to be approved by elected CWC.

NC president Koirala made the nominations even as his previous proposal to nominate Ram Chandra Paudel as vice president and Krishna Sitaula as general secretary has still not been approved.

Although the NC statute requires the president to make all nominations within two months of the general convention, only one member, Sher Bahadur Deuba, has been nominated as CWC member.

The nominations have been put off due to internal row in the party.

The elected CWC has 64 members with a president, a general secretary and a treasurer. The president nominates a vice president and a general secretary from among the elected CWC members and 21 CWC members from among the general convention representatives.