NC decides to make qualified and popular faces candidates for NA election

KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress has made a decision to give priority to qualified and popular individuals with clean image, who are committed to the party and so far have not got any opportunity or who are deprived of such opportunity, while selecting candidates for the National Assembly upcoming election.

The NC Central Working Committee meeting also decided to give common candidacy on the basis of consensus for the NA election candidature amongst the parties in the ruling coalition.

The NC CWC meeting was held from Dec 28 to30. Speaking in the press conference organized today at the party office to make public the meeting’s decisions, Chief of the NC Publicity Department, Min Bahadur Bishwakarma said the meeting appealed to all those involved in the peace process for common agreement, concluding that there should not be delay in providing justice to the conflict-affected people and families by taking the remaining works of the peace process to a logical conclusion.

The meeting has decided to endorse the revision of the date for holding the party’s Mahasamiti meeting on Feb 19-22, 2024. A CWC meeting on Dec 15 had rescheduled the date for the Mahasamiti meeting.

According to him, the ministers from the party in the present government had briefed the meeting about the roles they fulfilled and works they carried out in the last one year.

The central committee members putting their views in the meeting had said that although the woks on development and construction, good governance, employment creation, prosperity, rescue, relief and rehabilitation during earthquake, landslide, flooding and inundation, and in rescuing the Nepalis in distress due to the conflict in the international arena, carried out by the government in the last one year were satisfactory, there is the need for carrying out additional works in a prompt manner for instilling enthusiasm among the people.

Stating that indications of improvement have been seen in the economic, social sectors of the country, the major party in the ruling alliance demanded that the government adopts effective policies especially so that employment opportunities are generated, keeping in mind the developing situation in the nation’s economic, social and political fronts.

The NC CWC meeting decided to call attention of the government to take efficient policies on good governance while guaranteeing peace, and law and order.

Expressing sorrow over the incident that took place on Dec 29 at the EPS Office area at Balkumari of Lalitpur, themeeting called on the government to form a high-level judicial investigation committee to find out the truth and facts of the incident and bring the culprits to book.

Similarly, the party demanded that the government should provide appropriate employment to at least one member of the family of those who died in the agitation movement arising out of the dispute over the process of going abroad for work. It also demanded the government provides appropriate compensation to the families of the deceased.

The meeting drew the attention of the government over the movement taking place at several places and organised by those citizens who have been the victims of cooperatives. It demanded prompt implementation of the report of high-level mechanism formed by the government in that connection and to provide justice to the affected depositors.

Bishwakarma also said that the meeting has called on the government to promptly pass the laws related to the federalism implementation and others laws as the Federal Civil Service Act, Federal Police Act, the School Education Act, etc. that are in the process of endorsement.

The NC has pointed out the need of formulating the required policy and programmes, with the coordination among the three tiers of the government, for building earthquake-resistant physical structures for the strong and firm reconstruction in the post-Jajarkot earthquake.