KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr. Shekhar Koirala faction has warned of forming parallel committees in the party’s sister organizations against the party president’s unilateral decision-making tendencies.
Leader Koirala had invited a limited number of central members, including some former leaders of various sister organizations such as Nepal Student Union (NSU), Tarun Dal and party’s women-wing Nepal Women Association, among others, for discussions at his liaison office in Baluwatar on Thursday.
NC leaders participating in the meeting expressed their dissatisfaction over party President Sher Bahadur Deuba’s unilateral actions.
NC President and Prime Minister Deuba on Wednesday appointed Dujang Sherpa as NSU president and Bidhwan Gurung as Tarun Dal president.
Koirala faction alleged that NC President Deuba bypassed those, who had not cast him vote in the 14th general convention, from discussions on filling various vacant posts in party’s organizations. They also added that Deuba also sidelined leaders close to senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel and Prakashman Singh from the consultative process.
The Koirala faction concluded that Deuba had resorted to unilateral decision and utilized various factions Poudel and Singh as mere dummy in the decision-making process.
They were of the view that if such a situation where the leadership keeps on making unilateral decisions drags on, they have to resort to forming parallel committees.
The meeting was attended by the defeated vice-presidential Chandra Bhandari, central members Pratima Gautam and Govinda Pokhrel.
Former NSU president Gururaj Ghimire, Keshav Singh, former Tarun Dal general secretary and defeated presidential candidate in Karnali Province Bhupendra Jung Shahi, former Tarun Dal president Binod Kayastha, former NSU leader Manoj Mani Acharya, Dinesh Rai, Moti Bhandari, Kamala Thapa, Rita Khanal, Kusum Thapa and other leaders also attended the meeting.
Leader Gururaj Ghimire said that their conclusion was that the arbitrariness of the party president chairman had increased.
Stating that the center should abstain from deciding on the electoral alliance, he said, “Parliamentary committees should be formed at four levels to to choose the local election candidates.”
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