NC office building construction initiated

Lalitpur, Jan. 25 (RSS): President of the Nepali Congress (NC) Girija Prasad Koirala initiated construction work of the NC central office building amidst a function at Ward No. 2, Sanepa of Lalitpur Sub-Municipal Corporation today.

The five-storied building to be constructed at a cost of Rs 40 million is scheduled to be completed within 18 months.

The building will have a 250-seat capacity hall, two meeting rooms with 50 and 30 seat a library, a press room and a printing press also.

The sprawling six-ropani complex will have a parking area, a garden and a ground for holding general committee meetings.

A covered hall and a porch will also be constructed at the building covering an area of 36,888 square feet, it is learnt.

Then NC President Krishna Prasad Bhattarai had laid the foundation stone for the building in Baisakh, 2053 Bikram year.

At the function today, NC President Koirala said the Nepali Congress stands for principles, policy and ideals and if these do not exist, the party would have no significance.

He said that the construction work had to be initiated as the party had its own offices in various districts and it had become necessary to have a central office building.

Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said that it was a matter of happiness for the party to have its own building and called upon one and all to lend cooperation for the construction work.

Convenor of the construction committee and NC joint general secretary Govinda Raj Joshi said that those extending their financial cooperation for the construction of the building would be duly honoured.

Convenor of the technical sub-committee Dr. Jagadeesh Pokharel shed light on the technical aspects of the construction work.

Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress Publicity Department met under the chairmanship of chief of the department and party spokesman Arjun Narsing K.C. at the party’s central office at Teku today.

The meeting has directed all the 75 district working committees of the party to constitute publicity units and report back to the Central Publicity Department on the same.

Meanwhile, chief of the Publicity Department K.C. has appointed member of the department Bandhu Priya Thapa as member-secretary of the department, it is stated in a press release issued today by the Nepali Congress central office.

Last rites of Singh performed

Rajbiraj, Jan. 25 (RSS): The last rites of the national president of the Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) and National Assembly member late Gajendra Narayan Singh was performed with national honour at the Saptari Sewa Ashram this morning in accordance with Hindu rituals.

Late Singh’s funeral pyre was lit by his nephew Jaswant Singh.

On the occasion Nepal police had presented the last salute to the late Singh.

Present on the occasion were HMG representative and Minister for Information and Communications Jayaprakash Prasad Gupta, Minister for Population and Environment P. L. Singh, Nepal Sadbhawana Party central vice president Badri Prasad Mandal, MPs Hridayesh Tripathy and Rajendra Mahato, the NSP central members, DDC chairman Dinesh Kumar Yadav, CDO Dhruba Raj Wagle, SSP Kalyan Kumar Timilsina, Mayor Jagannath Das, foreign dignitaries, industrialists, journalists and a large number of people.

Mrs. Anandi Devi Singh paid her last sentimental tribute to her husband the late Singh.

The late Singh had passed away in Kathmandu due to heart attack on January 23.

In Rajbiraj, the Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) at its executive committee meting here today has decided to send urns containing ashes to every district and organise all party condolence meetings by every district executive committee from Jan 25 to Feb 5, according to party spokesman Muktinath Mandal.

A condolence book will be placed at every district party office.

Party vice chairman Badri Prasad Mandal, general secretary Rajendra Mahato, members Hridayesh Tripathy, Mahendra Kumar Singh Yadav, and spokesperson Muktinath Mandal, joint general secretary Khushilal Mandal, Mrs Amrita Agrahari, Anil Kumar Jha, former vice president Rameshwor Raya Yadav were present at the meeting.