NC Mahasamiti meeting begins; republic main agenda 
The much-awaited meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC) Mahasamiti began at the party headquarters in Sanepa, Lalitpur, Sunday afternoon.
Prime Minister and party president Girija Prasad Koirala inaugurated the meeting, which is participated by 628 representatives.
The Mahasamiti meeting is expected to endorse ‘federal democratic republic’ as the main political agenda of the party for the coming election. NC sources said the new policy is unlikely to face major opposition at the meeting.
Key leaders have already said the Mahasamiti meeting, which is taking place after ten years, is going to take a historic decision to adopt federal democratic republic as party's policy. That will mark a departure from its six-decade-old policy of favouring constitutional monarchy.
The central working committee (CWC) of the NC meeting on Sunday morning set the agenda for the Mahasamiti. The Mahasamiti is the second most powerful party policy-making body after General Convention.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former prime minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has written letters to NC president Koirala and NC-Democratic president Sher Bahadur Deuba reminding them about the need for the Congress to join hands with ‘nationalist’ forces.
Although the content of his letters have not been made public yet, reports say that it stresses on the need for the NC to stick to its centrist policies. It has also stressed on unity of two Congress parties. nepalnews.com sd Sep 23 07
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