The Nepali Congress Party (Deuba) central committee Friday expelled five district presidents for anti party activities from the party’s ordinary membership for three years to control and expand its grip of the fractured organization, an announcement said.

The party of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba expelled district presidents of Gorkha Chinkazi Shrestha, Arjun Joshi of Parbat, Raghunath Paudel of Tanahu, Khagendra Regmi of Syangjha and Hari Prasad Shrestha of Baglung. They supported the Congress led by president Girija Prasad Koirala.

Ad hoc committees were appointed in the districts with Deuba nominees. The central committee Friday discussed problems faced by the organization and future strategy, an announcement said.

The party central committee Friday endorsed the appointments of district ad hoc committees headed by Ramkrishna Yadav in Dhanusha and Rajendra Amatya in Parsa. The party decided to compensate the landowner of the house head quartering the party office in a Maoist bomb attack earlier this month.

The Deuba Congress is holding it second regional meeting Saturday in Biratnagar, the hometown of Koirala, to expand and consolidate its base ahead of the November 13 elections. nepalnews.com br July 11