The meeting of the central committee of the Maoists is giving final touch to the party’s list of 100 Constituent Assembly members selected from its closed list under the Proportional Representation (PR) category.

The party is expected to submit the list to the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday after ensuring that the quotas allocated for Madhesis, women, Janajatis, Dalits have been fulfilled.

The selected list of CA members include some CC members but not all of them as the party decided to keep some out of the CA to focus on party’s organisation building. The CC members not included in the list include Netra Bikram Chand, Kul Prasad KC, Dharmendra Bastola, Nanda Kishore Pun, Hemanta Prakash Oli, Hitraj Pandey, Devendra Poudel, among others, according to Nepal Samacharpatra daily.

The CC members included in the list are senior leader Mohan Baidya, Dinanath Sharma, Narayan Sharma, Matrika Yadav and so on.

On the other hand, parties like Nepali Congress (NC) and the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) have not yet finalised their PR list.

The meeting of the parliamentary party of NC held on Wednesday could not conclude the list due to internal disputes. The NC has won 73 seats under PR.

The UML central committee meeting, which is ongoing since last few days, has not yet taken up the issue of selecting candidates under PR list, according to a UML leader Raghuji Panta. The UML has won 70 seats under PR.

The EC has asked the parties to submit the name of their selected candidates by Friday. nepalnews.com sd May 01 08