Friday, September 02, 2005
Koirala re-elected to party’s topmost post
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, Aug 1 - The veteran leader of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala has once again been elected as the party president to lead the party for the next three-year term.
The octogenarian NC leader Koirala has been retaining the post of party president since the last ten years.
Koirala got 1215 votes, while his archrival Narahari Acharya secured a total of 165 votes.
The NC, the largest and oldest party in the country, on Monday had decided to break with its 59-year old history by omitting "constitutional monarchy" from its party statute.
The Monday's Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting finalized a policy paper that officially breaks off the party's relations with the country's 237-year-old institution, the monarchy.
Now the party’s statute terms the constitutional monarchy as a past glory.
Seventy-eight members have filed their candidacy for the post of 18 Central Working Committee members in the concluding general convention. (snn)
KATHMANDU, Aug 1 - The veteran leader of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala has once again been elected as the party president to lead the party for the next three-year term.
The octogenarian NC leader Koirala has been retaining the post of party president since the last ten years.
Koirala got 1215 votes, while his archrival Narahari Acharya secured a total of 165 votes.
The NC, the largest and oldest party in the country, on Monday had decided to break with its 59-year old history by omitting "constitutional monarchy" from its party statute.
The Monday's Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting finalized a policy paper that officially breaks off the party's relations with the country's 237-year-old institution, the monarchy.
Now the party’s statute terms the constitutional monarchy as a past glory.
Seventy-eight members have filed their candidacy for the post of 18 Central Working Committee members in the concluding general convention. (snn)
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