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…
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Kathmandu, Jan 17 (IANS) The legitimacy dispute between two factions of the Nepali Congress is likely to be decided by the Supreme Court after the group headed by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday decided to approach the apex court.The decision came a day after the Election Commission granted legitimacy to the leadership recently chosen by a Special General Convention (SGC) under the leadership of Gagan Thapa.As both sides approached the Election Commission claiming to represe…
Kathmandu, Jan 15 (IANS) A controversially held Special General Convention (SGC) of the Nepali Congress elected Gagan Thapa as the new president of the grand old party, hours after he was expelled from the party by a faction led by former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.At midnight on Wednesday, the SGC also elected other members of the Central Working Committee. Bishwa Prakash Sharma and Pushpa Bhusal were elected vice-presidents, while Pradeep Poudel and Gururaj Ghimire were elected general …
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…