Some bigwigs who did not make it to the PR list
Some prominent leaders have failed to make it to the
list of Constituent Assembly (CA) members selected by
the parties under the Proportional Representation (PR)
category, which were submitted to the Election
Commission (EC), on Friday.
In the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) list, the names
of acting general secretary Amrit Bohara and standing
committee members Sahana Pradhan, Mukunda Neupane and
Modnath Pashrit are missing.
The party sources have said that they decided not to
send the standing committee members in order to revamp
the party organisation following election defeat.
The Nepali Congress (NC) list misses out central
working committee members such as Sunil Bhandari and
other leaders like Manmohan Bhattarai, Radheshyam
Adhikari, and Harihar Birahi.
The Maoist list does not include its student wing
chief Lekhnath Neupane and a few central leaders like
Netra Bikram Chand.
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) list misses out
Bishwobandhu Thapa, Jogmeher Shrestha, among others.
The Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) has dropped singer
Nalina Chitrakar from the list.
The Election Commission has said that it will make the
final PR list public within a week after thorough
investigation of names in the list to ensure that they
fulfill specified quotas. nepalnews.com sd May 03 08
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