Dozen NC central leaders object

KATHMANDU, DEC 31 -
Amid strong opposition and notes of dissent from 12 Central Working Committee members,  Nepali Congress on Monday submitted its list of lawmakers under the PR category to the EC.

Gagan Thapa, Surendra Pandey, Chandra Bhandari, Arjun Joshi, Deep Kumar Upadhyay, Rajan Panta, Baburam Rana, Amod Prasad Upadhyay, Mina Subba, Ramesh Rijal, Jeevan Shahi and Ajay Chaurasia jointly registered a note of dissent at the CWC meeting over the “wrong procedure and basis” followed while finalising the PR list.

They accused the party leadership of flouting the four-point selection criteria. They charged that the PR seats were divided between President Sushil Koirala and senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba and they selected names from sub-factions of the Koirala and Deuba camps.

Before finalising the names, Koirala and Deuba are said to have held separate meetings to pick their favourites and kin before tabling the names at the CWC meeting later.

The dozen CWC leaders noted that there was no representation from 25 districts where no party candidate won in the direct polls and that leaders of NC ’s sister wings did not make it to the list.

“Why should there be eight candidates from Dhanusha, five from Banke, three from Tanahun and none from the 25 districts,” CWC member Thapa questioned.

“We simply sought logic behind the nominations and our fight is against the wrong system prevailing in the party for long.”

Another CWC member Bhandari said there were many leaders who contributed to the party in difficult times but their efforts were not counted. Thapa pointed out that there was no representation of professionals.

They accused Koirala and Deuba of promoting factionalism in the party by allocating PR seats 50 and 40 percent between them. “I must say that the NC has made another historic blunder,” Thapa added.

He said that professionals like Rameshwor Khanal and journalists like Dharmendra Jha and Harihar Birahi were left out as well as the chairperson of Nepal Women’s Association.

Thapa rued that some old faces were repeated and some who had contributed to the party candidates’ defeat in the November polls were selected.

Leaders said President Koirala confessed in the meeting that they could not do justice to all but did not comment on the registered note of dissent.

Nepali Congress PR lawmakers

1.    Chitralekha Yadav

2.    Gopalman Shrestha

3.    Kul Bahadur Gurung

4.    Lila Koiala

5.    Dil Bahadur Gharti

6.    Narendra Bikram Nembang

7.    Pradeep Giri

8.    Gyanendra Bahadur Karki

9.    Minendra Rijal

10.    Prakash Saran Mahat

11.    Man Bdr Bishwokarma

12.    Sujata Koirala

13.    Manmohan Bhattarai

14.    Maha Laxmi Upadhyay ‘Dina’

15.    Ananda Prasad Dhungana

16.    Suryaman Gurung

17.    Kamal Panta

18.    Ambika Basnet

19.    Dhan Raj Gurung

20.    Mahendra Yadav

21.    Ratna Serchan

22.    Min Bahadur Bishwokarma

23.    Badri Prasad Pandey

24.    Jeevan Pariyar

25.    Ishwori Neupane

26.    Sita Gurung

27.    Kavita Kumar Sardar

28.    Minakshai Jha

29.    Kumari Laxmi Rai

30.    Chinkaji Shrestha

31.    Ram Chandra Pokhrel

32.    Ashok Koirala

33.    Ganesh Prasad Bimali

34.    Jagdish Narshing KC

35.    Tarini Dutta Chataut

36.    Bharat Bahadur Khadka

37.    Dhurba Wagle

38.    Baldev Bohora

39.    Sarita Prasai

40.    Madhu Shai Thakuri

41.    Anita Devkota

42.    Mithu Malla

43.    Rita Shai

44.    Chandra Devi Joshi

45.    Arzoo Rana Deuba

46.    Deepshikha Sharma Dhakal

47.    Sheela Sharma Khadka

48.    Mukta Kumari Yadav

49.    Sangita Mandal (Dhanuk)

50.    Kausar Shah

51.    Rashmiu Thakur

52.    Sarwat Aara Khatun Hulawaini

53.    Pramila Devi Das

54.    Usha Gurung

55.    Rajyalaxmi Shrestha

56.    Saraswati Bajiyma

57.    Pushpalata Lama

58.    Binda Ale Rana

59.    Anjana Tamli

60.    Sujata Pariyar

61.    Subarna Jawrchan

62.    Anjani Shrestha

63.    Mahendra Kumari Limbu

64.    Om Devi Malla Joshi

65.    Kalpana Sop

66.    Asha BK

67.    Bishnumaya Pariyar

68.    Sabitri Devi Chaudhary

69.    Bhotani Devi Khawas

70.    Laxmi Devi Bhandari

71.    Mohan Kumar Rai

72.    Dil Man Pakhrin

73.    Amar Singh Pun

74.   Jhul Bahadur Ale

75.    Manohar Narayan Shrestha

76.    Lal Bahadur Ghale

77.    Khagda Bahadur Basyal

78.    Ranjit Karna

79.    Amiya Kumar Yadav

80.    Lalbabu Singh Bhuihar

81.    Badshah Kurmi

82.    Abdul Hamid Siddiqi

83.    Amrit Lal Rajbanshi

84.    Shanti Devi Chaudary

85.    Buddi Sagar Chaudhary

86.    Haresh Prasad Mahato

87.    Mo Mokhtar Ahamad

88.    Dilli Bahadur Chaudary

89.    Pyare Lal Rana

90.    Maiku Lal Balmiki

91.    Narvan Kami

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