BARDIYA, Nov 24: Nepali Congress's Janmajaya Timilsina secured a Province Assembly A seat from Bardiya constituency 2. He garnered 17,251 votes while his nearest rival Nagarik Unmukti Party's Pradeshi Chaudhary 12,184.
KATHMANDU: The ruling Nepali Congress (NC) is all set to inaugurate its 14th General Convention in the capital from Friday.
The general convention will elect the party's new leadership for the next five years including 13 office bearers. Delegates from across the country are arriving in Kathmandu to attend the party’s national jamboree.
As of Thursday afternoon, incumbent President Sher Bahadur Deuba has announced to vie for the presidential position for the second stint. Bimalendra Nidhi, incumbent vice president, is also all set to challenge Deuba. The rival faction led by senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel, however, is yet to forge a consensus to field a common candidate to challenge Deuba and Nidhi.
Amid the claims of victory by the aspirants of various positions including president, vice presidents, general secretaries and joint general secretaries, calculations are being made on the basis of the number of delegates joining the party congress.
According to the data availed by the party’s election committee, Bagmati Province holds the highest number of votes followed by Province 2. Karnali, though largest in terms of area, sends the least number of delegates among seven provinces.
In this story, we discuss the voters for the general convention of the ruling side.
Province 1
Home to leaders including Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar, Dr Shekhar Koirala and Gyanendra Bahadur Karki among others, Province 1 boasts as many as 733 votes.
Twenty-seven delegates each from Taplejung, Tehrathum, Okhaldhunga and Panchthar, 26 each from Bhojpur, Dhankuta and Sankhuwasabha and 53 from Ilam districts will join the general conventions, according to the party’s election committee.
Similarly, 132 from Jhapa, 152 from Morang, 105 from Sunsari, 28 from Solukhumbu, 25 from Khotang and 52 from Udayapur will be voting for the new leadership in the general convention.
Province 2
As many as 705 delegates will join the general convention from eight districts of Province 2.
Also the home to Nidhi, one of the presidential candidates, the province, however, could not send the number of delegates in its full capacity amidst failure to hold conventions in some constituencies.
According to the election committee, the highest number of delegates (105) would join from Siraha district. The general convention is expected to witness the presence of 104 delegates each from Saptari, Mahottari, Dhanusha and Bara districts followed by 103 from Parsa. Similarly, Rautahat will send as many as 81 delegates.
Bagmati Province
Bagmati boasts the most number of delegates -- 879 from 13 districts.
The three districts in the Kathmandu Valley alone represent as many as 402 voters --- Kathmandu (266), Lalitpur (82) and Bhaktapur (54). Similarly, 27 each from Dolakha, Ramechhap and Rasuwa, 52 each from Sindhuli, Sindhupalchowk and Makwanpur districts are eligible to cast their votes for the party’s new central executive committee.
Chitwan’s 79, Dhading’s 54 and 53 each from Nuwakot and Kavre were elected as the representatives for the national jamboree.
Gandaki Province
Senior leader Poudel belongs to this province which has delegated 480 representatives.
The election committee shared that 26 from Mustang, 27 each from Manang and Myagdi, 28 each from Lamjung and Parbat and 52 each from Nawalparasi (West) and Baglung will participate in the election process. Similarly, Syangja’s 53, Tanahu’s 54 and Kaski’s 80 will play decisive roles in selecting the new executive committee of the party.
Lumbini Province
As many as 683 delegates will participate in the general convention from 12 districts of Lumbini province. Gulmi, Palpa and Bardiya have sent 53 delegates each followed by Nawalparasi’s 52.
While Rupandehi district sends the highest number of delegates – 131, Arghakhanchi and Rukum (East) will have 26 --- the least representatives-- each.
Similarly, Kapilvastu’s 77, Dang and Banke’s 79 each and Rolpa and Pyuthan’s 27 each are joining the Congress party’s 14th General Convention in the capital.
Karnali Province
The largest province has elected as many as 317 delegates for the national jamboree.
Twenty-seven each from Rukum (West), Salyan, Mugu, Kalikot and Jajarkot will participate in the general convention. While Dailekh sends 54 delegates, Dolpa sends only 24 for the election process. Surkhet and Humla have sent 52 and 26 delegates respectively.
Sudur Paschim Province
Home province of President Deuba, Sudur Paschim has elected as many as 419 representatives including 79 from Kanchanpur district.
While 26 delegates each from Dadeldhura, Doti and Bajhang districts join the national congress, Baitadi and Darchula delegate 27 voters each.
Kailali has sent the most delegates of 130 from its five electoral constituencies followed by 52 from Achham.
KATHMANDU, September 21The Nepali Congress is holding ward conventions as part of its 14th general convention in seven districts today. The districts to have the ward conventions are Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Kathmandu, Bajura, Kapilvastu, Bardiya and Morang, according to coordinator of NC central election committee, Mahadev Prasad Yadav.
The party had earlier fixed the ward convention date today for 20 districts. But, the details on distribution of active membership are yet to come from remaining 13 districts.
The NC had already held the ward convention in 57 districts. The ward level election had begun since September 3.
Yadav further said 13 districts to furnish details on active membership are Surkhet, Dolpa, Rasuwa, Rupandehi and Kailali and eight districts from Province-2. The convention would be held after the details are received.
It is said the NC has some 900 thousand active members. The active members elect ward committee and area committee.
The NC has a fresh schedule for rural and municipality convention on September 25, area convention in province on September 28 and district convention with single constituency district on October 1.
The central general convention of the party is scheduled for November 25-29.
Ruling Nepali Congress is holding its ward level general convention in seven districts on Tuesday as per its amended 14th general convention calendar.
However, ward level general convention in 13 other districts has become uncertain as the party failed to resolve the active membership dispute there.
NC Central Election Committee member Tej Rawal informed on Monday that the committee is holding the ward level general convention in Kathmandu, Kavrepalanchowk, Sindhupalchowk, Bajura Kapilvastu, Bardiya and Morang districts.
KATHMANDU: Though the ruling Nepali Congress (NC)’s 14th General Convention formally kicked off on
September 3 by holding ward-level conventions, one of the oldest parties of the country is yet to resolve active membership disputes in 21 districts.
A committee headed by Krishna Prasad Sitaula is still waiting for the details of active members from those districts which could not hold ward conventions on the scheduled date.
Two other members of the committee include Minendra Rijal and Ramesh Lekhak. Three of them said that the active membership row was settled following a ‘theoretical consensus.
As all three members of the committee have taken two-day leave, publishing names of active members in 21 districts including Dadeldhura, President Sher Bahadur Deuba’s home district, has remained uncertain.
Rijal and Lekhak returned from their home districts. However, Sitaula is preparing to make it to his home district, Jhapa on Monday.
The committee was supposed to publish the electoral roll of Dadeldhura and Kapilvastu on Saturday. However, the unavailability of two members impacted the schedule.
Talking to Ratopati, Sitaula said that the committee asked the Active Membership Probe Committee to implement the decisions after their theoretical consensus. The probe committee is holding a meeting on Sunday afternoon.
Ward-level conventions took place on the scheduled date in the districts of Ram Chandra Poudel (Tanahu) and Gopal Man Shrestha (Syangja) though there are nearly one dozen aspirants for the presidential position.
Convention in the districts of most presidential aspirants falls uncertain. Congress is yet to publish the list of active members in Province 1’s Morang, the home district of aspirants duo: Shekhar Koirala and Sujata Koirala.
Similarly, active membership row in all eight districts of Province 2 has remained unresolved. The convention is yet to begin formally in the province of Bimalendra Nidhi, who formally announced to vie for the presidential position.
Kathmandu, Sindhupalchowk, Kavre and Rasuwa (Bagmati Province) are yet to formally begin 14th General Convention amidst the active membership row. Prakash Man Singh, one of the aspirants for the presidential position belongs to Kathmandu district where ward conventions are still uncertain.
Ward conventions failed to kick off on a scheduled date in three districts in Lumbini Province (Kapilvastu, Banke and Bardiya) and two in Karnali (Dolpa and Surkhet).
As Kailali, Bajura and Dadeldhura fail to settle the membership disputes, ward convention has fallen in limbo.
Ward conventions held in 38 districts
The ruling party has so far held war-level conventions in 38 districts as of Sunday afternoon. According to the information disseminated by the party’s election committee, most wards elect leadership anonymously.
List of distractions where ward conventions have been concluded
Province 1: Taplejung, Panchthar, Ilam, Sankhuwasabha, Tehrathum, Bhojpur, Khotang, Solukhumbu, Okhaldhunga, Udayapur, Jhapa and Dhankuta
Bagmati Province: Dolakha, Sindhuli, Makwanpur and Bhaktapur
Gandaki Province: Gorakha, Lamjung, Tanahun, Kaski, Manang, Mustang, Parbat, Syangja and Myagdi
Lumbini Province: Nawalparasi, Rupandehi, Arghakhanchi and Dang
Karnali Province: Rukum West, Jumla, Humla, Jajarkot and Dailekh
Sudur Paschim Province: Bajhang, Doti, Achham and Kanchanpur
Ward conventions to be held in these districts between Monday and Wednesday
Monday (Sept 6): Sunsaru, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Baglung, Nawalpur, Lalitpur, Palpa, Salyan and Mugu
Tuesday: Gulmi, Pyuthan, Kalikot, Darchula and Baitadi
Wednesday: Rolpa and Ramechhap
