KATHMANDU, June 30: CPN-UML has expanded its Standing Committee.
In the recent expansion, four former leaders of the CPN (Maoist Center), who opted to join the UML after the Supreme Court (SC) on March 7 invalidated the erstwhile Nepal Communist Party (NCP), have also been included in the committee. Former Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatta and Mani Thapa have been added in the committee.
Similarly, Raghubir Mahaseth, Bishnu Rimal, Beduram Bhusal and Raghu Panta have also been included.
UML Spokesperson Pradeep Gyawali said that the Standing Committee members of the erstwhile NCP have been given space in the party’s similar committee.
Meanwhile,the party also dissolved its 10th General Convention Organizing Committee.
UML is scheduled to hold its Central Committee meeting on July 2.
KATHMANDU, May 20: CPN-UML leader and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal has lost the National Assembly by-election.
Thapa suffered the loss to Dr Khim Lal Devkota, the candidate fielded by an opposition alliance, in the by-election for the vacant post of National Assembly member from Bagmati Province, held on Thursday.
According to the final vote-count, Badal got 4014 votes while Khimlal got 5088 votes.
MAKWANPUR, May 7: Central member of the CPN (UML) and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa today said that he fielded his candidacy for a vacant post of member in the National Assembly (upper house) as per party’s direction. “I filed my candidacy for the post for the protection of the constitution and economic prosperity,” he said while talking to media-persons on his way to Kathmandu, the central capital of the country, after filing his candidacy for the post.
On the occasion, he viewed that party cadres should be pro-people instead of being pro-leaders while making party organisation disciplined and respectable.
Stating that the federal government has mobilised security agencies in all seven provinces to maintain peace and security, he said that the provincial government should also mobilise its resources and provide treatment against Covid-19.
Likewise, Dr Khim Lal Devkota, a common candidate for the post from Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre), has said that the filing of his candidacy for the post aims to bring the constitution on track.
He stressed the need for discipline among political parties to make republic live and for making role of province more pro people, transparent and responsible.
Krishna Bahadur Tamang, another candidate for the post from the Nepal Workers Peasants Party, expressed his commitment to work for the welfare of people beyond personal vested interest while abiding by the constitution, laws and acts.
KATHMANDU, May 7: The ruling CPN-UML has fielded Home Minister and party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ for the upcoming by-elections for a vacant seat in the National Assembly.
An informal meeting of UML’s Standing Committee on Thursday picked him as the candidate for the seat in the upper house from Bagmati Province.
The EC is holding by-polls to elect legislators in a vacant seat in the upper house of parliament that fell vacant after the former lawmaker Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, who was elected from the CPN (Maoist Center), was suspended as the member of parliament after he joined the ruling CPN-UML.
Opposition alliance including the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and ruling UML’s Nepal-Khanal faction has fielded Dr Khimlal Devkota.
Minister Thapa will contest election on UML’s symbol’ while Devkota will be contesting on the election symbol of Maoist party.
Thapa and Devkota reached Bagmati Province capital, Hetauda on Thursday and registered their candidacy.
The by-polls have been slated for May 20. The members of the province assembly and the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities will cast their votes. A total of 348 voters, including 110 province assembly members and 238 chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels are eligible to vote in the by-polls in Bagmati Province.
Provincial lawmakers and local government officials in the Bagmati province who are close to the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led faction of the ruling CPN-UML are highly likely to vote against the party's official candidate Ram Bahadur Thapa in the National Assembly by-election to be held on May 20.
KATHMANDU, April 24: A meeting of the ruling CPN-UML’s Tenth General Convention Organizing Committee formed a 19-member standing committee.
The committee includes party Chairperson KP Sharma Oli, Gneral Secretary Ishwor Pokharel, Bamdev Gautam, Ram Bahadur Thapa, Bishnu Prasad Poudel, Subas Nembang and Top Bahadur Rayamajhi. Similalry, Pradeep Gyawali, Shankar Pokharel, Prithvi Subba Gurung, Lekhraj Bhatta, Mani Chandra Thapa, Kiran Gurung, Satya Narayan Mandal, Chhabilal Biswokarma, Bishnu Rimal, Raghubir Mahaseth, Keshab Badal and Dr Pushpa Raj Kande were also included in the committeel.
The leaders close to the senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, however, were excluded in the new committee.
The meeting also decided to welcome the leaders and cadres joining the party ‘mainstream’ reviewing the past activities and roles, and also to provide an appropriate portfolio. The meeting passed a 19-point proposal.
Earlier, the meeting had divided the portfolio of the organizing committee members.
