NC decision could divide party: Shailaja

January 14, 2001
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Kathmandu, Jan. 14: Shailaja Acharya, a member of the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee, has appealed to Prime Minister and NC President Girija Prasad Koirala to reconsider the decision to change the party’s representational structure.

“It is not in the interest of the party to open up the central leadership at a high proportion in the existing situation,” said Acharya in a press statement today. The Central Working Committee is the party’s highest decision making body.

“The provision to elect 50 per cent of the 37 central members on a nation-wide basis will not only threaten the President all the time but also invite a crisis in the party,” she said. “This provision may end dividing the party.”

The 41st meeting of NC Central Working Committee (CWC) held a couple of days ago had agreed to expand the CWC representation from 31 to 37 and elect 50 per cent of the members on a nation-wide basis. Previously party president used to nominate 25 of the 31 CWC members.

“The new provision is a ‘coup’ to displace the second generation leaders pursuing the ideals of late B. P. Koirala and Ganesh Man Singh,” read the press statement. “There is a plot behind this agreement to change the representational structure of the CWC.”

The statement said that NC would lose the confidence of the people if it failed to come up with a new image after the 10th general convention.

“The country is passing through a crisis owing to unfair politics,” the press statement said. “We have to fight a concluding battle in the forthcoming convention to save the party and the nation,” Acharya also urged the party workers.