Crucial NC meet today, MPs, others to attend

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Mar. 17: A preparatory meeting of the Nepali Congress Secretariat was held today at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Baluwatar. The meeting is held on the eve of a meeting of the party’s rank and file.

A special meeting of the Nepali Congress’s Central Working Committee, MPs, former MPs and CWC members and the party’s district presidents will be held tomorrow at the Birendra International Convention Hall.

According to Baluwatar sources, the preparatory meeting was meant to work out the agenda to be discussed at tomorrow’s meeting, issues Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala will raise and on the directives the Prime Minister would give to the party’s district presidents.

Party sources say district presidents from more than 65 districts will be participating at tomorrow’s meeting.

Likewise, a meeting of the congress MPs and others said to be close to Sher Bahadur Deuba also held a meeting today. It is not known about the content of the meeting. Deuba and his supporters keep a different opinion within the party.

It might be mentioned that a no-confidence motion brought against Koirala as leader of the party’s parliamentary party by Deuba about four months ago had failed.

Tomorrow’s meeting is being held at a time when the Opposition parties have been disrupting the parliamentary proceedings since the last five weeks by demanding resignation of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala over his alleged involvement on the Lauda Air deal.

But Prime Minister Koirala has said that he would not step down going outside the constitutional provisions. The Prime Minister has also said that if the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) found him guilty he would not remain in the seat for even a minute.

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