Kathmandu, March 19 (IANS) Gagan Thapa, who was elected president of the Nepali Congress through a controversially-held special general convention in January, has resigned from his post following the party’s electoral setback in the recently held parliamentary elections. Thapa himself suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the Sarlahi-4 constituency in Madhesh Province, as his party came a distant second, with a lar…
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New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Indian National Congress on Tuesday reaffirmed its focus on organisational revival at the district level, conducting a productive one-day intensive training programme for newly appointed District Congress Committee (DCC) Presidents from eight states as part of the ongoing Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan. A total of 286 DCC Presidents participated in the session held at Indira Bhawan, where Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gan…
Kathmandu, Jan 20 (IANS) Nepal may no longer see former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba contest parliamentary elections again as his secretariat announced on Tuesday that he will not run in the upcoming House of Representatives election scheduled for March 5. Bhanu Deuba, Deuba’s chief Personal Secretary, wrote on social media: “President of the Nepali Congress and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will not contest the upcoming House of Representatives elections.”The announcement ma…
Kathmandu, Jan 14 (IANS) The Nepali Congress appears to be heading towards a split after the establishment faction of the party, led by President Sher Bahadur Deuba, on Wednesday decided to expel three office-bearers for five years for their alleged involvement in the Special General Convention (SGC). A meeting of the Central Working Committee, dominated by Deuba loyalists, on Wednesday decided to expel General Secretaries Gagan Thapa, Bishwa Prakash Sharma and Joint General Secretary Farmullah …
Kathmandu, Jan 13 (IANS) The Nepali Congress appears to be on the verge of a split amid differences between two factions over the ongoing Special General Convention (SGC), although efforts to keep the party intact continued throughout Tuesday. The party’s two factions — one led by party president and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, and the other led by General Secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma — are at the loggerheads over the SGC being held in Kathmandu at the ca…
Kathmandu, Jan 8 (IANS) As most political parties move ahead to consolidate cadre for the March 5 parliamentary elections, the Nepali Congress (NC) appears to be a divided house. Analysts warn that failure to settle the party’s internal strife at the earliest could prove costly for the grand old party in the upcoming House of Representatives elections.In mid-October last year, a majority of representatives at the party’s general convention submitted a petition demanding that the party hold a…