Congress’s active investigation completed, new membership of four districts suspended
KATHMANDU: JULY 27 – The work of investigating the active membership of the Congress has been completed. The Central Active Membership Investigation Committee headed by Central Member Ramesh Lekhak has completed the work of investigating the active membership of all 77 districts for the 14th General Convention.
The committee has prepared a report with unanimous decisions, contentious issues and suggestions. The meeting of central office-bearers and former office-bearers has stated that the committee has completed its work as per the criteria of resolving the committee unanimously and postponing such active membership for the upcoming general convention. Accordingly, the number of active members is around 852,000, said a member of the committee.
The committee has renewed the old active membership of all 165 constituencies. “There weren’t many problems with the renewal. Therefore, we have worked as liberally as possible and resolved the dispute of renewal of all 165 constituencies unanimously, ‘said the member. According to him, there are still disputes in some places over the distribution of new membership and the adjustment of those from other parties. The committee is about to submit the report including the disputes to the party as per the criteria.
According to the members, the distribution of new membership in four districts has been stopped due to a dispute. Those districts are Saptari, Bara, Sindhupalchok and Rasuwa. Similarly, the committee has not been able to reach an agreement on the new active membership of Dhanusha-4 and Sarlahi-2. The members said that it may be postponed for the upcoming general convention. ‘New membership of all wards in these four districts and two constituencies has been stopped. There are also additional memberships through integration, apart from which only sporadic wards of other districts have been stopped, ‘he said. The leader said that the disputes of around 150 wards across the country could not be resolved.
Committee spokesperson Pradip Poudel informed that the committee is preparing to submit the report to the meeting of central office bearers and former office bearers this morning. The report is being submitted to the committee 22 days later than the time given for investigation. If the investigation had been completed on time, the Congress General Convention would have started from today. According to the pre-determined schedule, the ward level convention should be held today. However, the schedule of the General Convention has been affected due to untimely completion of the investigation.
In today’s meeting of office bearers and former office bearers, the report to be submitted by the committee and the schedule of the general convention will be discussed. The meeting is being held at the residence of Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba in Budhanilkantha. During the meeting, the leaders will discuss on the decisions made by the investigation committee to resolve the disputes in the disputed areas and resolve the active membership, said an official. He also said that they would discuss the agenda of the affected general convention and if agreed, a new schedule could be worked out.
According to the previously scheduled schedule, the Central General Convention will be held from 1 to 4 September. However, leaders have been saying that the Central General Convention is likely to be postponed due to the rising rate of corona infection, rains, floods and landslides, disruption of road network across the country, farming season in villages, and arrangements made by President Deuba’s government. However, President Deuba has not agreed to discuss the postponement of the convention. Until now, Deuba has said that the Central General Convention should be held on the scheduled date.
