District presidents of Nepali Congress (NC) have prepared to start a nation-wide signature campaign if the provision that allows automatic election of central committee members as general convention representatives is not revoked. The district presidents are also demanding review of the central committee decision about positive discrimination.
Participants in the two-day meeting of the district presidents that started in Kathmandu on Wednesday have opined that such signature campaign should be started to put pressure on the central leadership to revoke the central committee decision taken against the spirit of mahasamiti meeting, according to the party's president in Rolpa Amar Singh Pun.
The district presidents have been opposing the provision that was kept in the party statute despite NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba and senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel during the recent mahasamiti meeting expressing commitment to ensure that all general convention representatives will have to be elected.
NC president and senior leaders during the closing session of mahasamiti meeting held from January 13-23 had expressed commitment to ensure that the provision allowing central members to automatically become general convention representatives will be revoked, and proportional and positive discrimination positions will not be repeated for a single individual as per the demands of mahasamiti members and district presidents. But the central committee meeting held after the mahasamiti meeting endorsed the party statute without addressing those demands.
The meeting featuring the party's presidents in 41 districts has also decided to do necessary coordination for relief assistance in the storm-hit settlements in Bara district.
President of the party in Nuwakot Jagadishwore Narsingh KC told Setopati that the meeting is also discussing formation of the party's organizational structure and the need to conduct a nation-wide Mechi-Mahakali campaign against the government's bad governance, corruption and the deteriorating law and order situation.
