Senior Advocate Challenges Legality of Nepali Congress Special General Convention

Kathmandu. In the ongoing dispute regarding the official status of the Nepali Congress, Senior Advocate Ekraj Pokharel has questioned whether a special general convention possesses the authority to elect new leadership.Challenging the legitimacy of granting official status to Gagan Thapa under the guise of a special general convention, Senior Advocate Pokharel stated, 'Once a complaint is filed with the commission, there is no authority to make a unilateral decision without resolving the matter.'During the hearing held on Thursday before the Supreme Court bench of Justices Sharanga Subedi and Nripadhwaj Niraula, Senior Advocate Pokharel, representing petitioner Sher Bahadur Deuba, argued that...