CHITWAN: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr. Shekhar Koirala has said that the party should go into an electoral alliance ensuring the minimal damage to the party.
Speaking to reporters at Bharatpur Airport on Saturday, Koirala said that the Central Working Committee meeting in Kathmandu is discussing whether to form an alliance in the upcoming House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly elections.
When asked whether NC would let Constituency 3 of Chitwan to the coalition partners, he replied that it was not decided yet.
NC had not got Constituency 3 on its part even in the previous federal election . Then NC had formed alliance with RPP.
Likewise, in the recent local level elections of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, which comprises most parts of Constituency 3 falls, NC could not get a mayor due to its alliance with the Maoist Center.
He said that the meeting is also discussing the matter of releasing the actions of the leaders and activists who were prosecuted during the local level elections. Jagannath Poudel, who was prosecuted for his candidacy for the mayorship of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, had reached the airport to welcome Koirala.
In a different context, leader Koirala asked the party President Sher Bahadur Deuba to form and fulfill departments and sister organizations in a fair manner.
He says that it is not necessary to make it a big issue for leaders to call their party’s leaders and workers for advice.
Leader Koirala dismissed the allegation of nurturing factionalism in party and remarked that meeting with leaders close to someone should not be interpreted as groupism.
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