KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress (NC) launched the distribution of new active party membership and renewal of existing ones from Friday in view of its upcoming 14th General Convention.

According to the party source, the House of Representatives regional working committees are responsible for undertaking the distribution of new membership and the district working committees are assigned to renew the active membership in accordance with the party’s statute.

As party Spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma said that the number of party’s active members who are held important in the party organizations is around 500 thousand at home and abroad.

The party central working committee meeting on February 12 had agreed to allocate a maximum of 50 percent of the existing active membership to new active members.

The party has decided to organize the 14th General Convention from coming February 19 to 22 in 2021.