KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress (NC) President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has called a meeting of party office-bearers and former office-bearers today.
The meeting will discuss the report submitted by the active membership probe committee on Tuesday and disputes surrounding the issue of active memberships.
The meeting will take place at Prime Minister Deuba’s residence in Budhanilkantha today, said Chief Secretary of the party office Krishna Prasad Paudel.
The probe committee has submitted a list of 852,000 active members across the country with recommendations to President Deuba.
The committee has submitted a report urging the top leaders to resolve the dispute over the distribution of new memberships in Bara, Saptari, Dhanusha and Sarlahi. The controversy is likely to escalate further after committee member Kalyan Gurung disagreed with the report.
Top leaders have been holding internal discussions since Tuesday to form an opinion on the report submitted by the committee.
The group, including senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel, had held a discussion on the issue at the residence of former General Secretary Prakash Man Singh in Chaksibari.
The Poudel group has accused the establishment party of distributing active memberships in a one-sided manner.
The dispute over the active members of the NC is likely to hit the upcoming 14th General Convention of the party slated for September 1-4.
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