The meeting of the central committee of the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML), which was expected to choose a coordinator for the committee to organise the general convention of the party, did not take place on Wednesday as earlier scheduled.

Party leaders have said that the meeting will now take place on Thursday morning at around 11 am.

The sudden postponement of the meeting has come amid reports of internal dispute regarding leadership of the party.

A tough contest is said to be on between acting general secretary Amrit Kumar Bohara and standing committee member Jhalnath Khanal, with both of them jockeying for the post of coordinator of the organising committee.

Following the party’s defeat at the recently held Constituent Assembly (CA) election, the UML is now preparing to overhaul its leadership. It is preparing to dissolve its central and standing committee and form a committee to organise the party’s eighth general convention. nepalnews.com sd May 14 08