Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Guru Raj Ghimire has stated that only 29 general convention representatives among those who signed the petition for organizing the Special General Convention have withdrawn their signatures.
Acting President Purna Bahadur Khadka reached the Election Commission Friday and asserted that 885 convention delegates had withdrawn their signatures.
Following this, General Secretary Ghimire addressed the matter on social media saying, "According to the records at the secretariat, among all the delegates who signed the petition to organize the Special General Convention, only 29 convention members have withdrawn."
The following is General Secretary Ghimire’s statement:
1. Our serious attention has been drawn toward certain matters raised by the then Acting President of the Nepali Congress upon reaching the Election Commission.
2. In the context where the historic Special General Convention of the Nepali Congress has been completed, the Central Committee has been formed, and all necessary documents have already reached the Election Commission, the context of the withdrawal of a few convention delegates' numbers is baseless.
Raising this issue after the convention delegates participated in the Special General Convention and leadership has already been selected through voting or consensus is merely "political propaganda."
3. It does not appear lawful for the then Central Committee to evade its statutory responsibility by not making the demand for Special General Convention a subject of discussion for three months, for the then Working Committee to decide that Special General Convention is not justified, to fail to follow the schedule of the regular convention, to stop ward conventions without notice even before completing the work of active membership renewal and distribution, and then to call a meeting of the then Working Committee two days later to announce a date for a regular General Convention four months later. The then Central Committee itself is the violator of the then schedule.
4. It is an outright illegal act for the then Central Committee to have extended its own term only until the end of Magh (mid February) yet for the Working Committee to set a date for the regular General Convention three months after that term had expired.
5. According to the records at the secretariat, among all the delegates who signed the petition to organize the Special General Convention, only 29 convention members have withdrawn.
6. It seems astonishing for the then Acting President, who was personally present to receive the demand letter for the Special General Convention, to say that he only heard rumors about the Special General Convention.
7. It is to inform that while demanding the Special General Convention the number of convention members was 2,488, which was 54.58 percent of the total 4,635 members, whereas the number of participants at the Special General Convention was 2,652, or 57.21 percent.
