Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has said the party lost votes due to its failure to openly oppose the Indian blockade two and a half years ago.
“We could not loudly call out the Indian blockade. Its impact was seen in the elections. We lost votes,” Deuba stated Sunday evening while addressing the central committee meeting for review of the electoral loss that continued at the party’s central office in Sanepa for a month.
He also claimed that the party suffered an unexpected loss due to the electoral alliance between CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center).
Deuba spoke for half an hour during the concluding session of the meeting and urged the leaders, cadres and well-wishers of the party to not be deflated assuring he will drive the party forward in a new manner.
He, reportedly, is also mulling to propose names for vice president, general secretary, deputy general secretary and other office-bearers in the next central committee meeting. The Ram Chandra Paudel faction, however, is unhappy after learning that Deuba is planning to nominate leaders from his faction in the vacant posts.
The office-bearers should have been nominated within two months after the 13
th general convention held in March 2016 but Deuba has failed to do so even two years later.
