Kathmandu. The new Central Working Committee, elected from the 15th Congress of Nepali Congress, will formally take over all the responsibilities of running the party from 12th November today.
Newly elected office bearers and members are going to take oath in a special ceremony to be held today at 2 pm at the central office (BP Smriti Bhavan) in Sanepa, Lalitpur.
According to the Central Election Committee, in today’s ceremony, all other office bearers and central members, except the party chairman, will take oath of office and secrecy. As the newly elected party president Gagan Kumar Thapa had already taken the oath of office and secrecy on October 31, the day of Dasain Phoolpati, the rest of the party will take the oath today.
Member Secretary of the Election Committee, Advocate Raju Katuwal informed that the swearing-in ceremony will be conducted in a different format from the past and the newly elected leaders will also be reinstated today along with the distribution of certificates.
The final results of the 15th Congress held in Kathmandu from October 18th to October 23rd were officially announced on October 30th. The opening and closing sessions of the convention were held in the open forum, while voting was held in the open forum and the national hall.
The voting of the General Assembly was held on October 23, and on the same day, the chairman’s vote was counted at the National Hall. The results of the chairman’s vote count came on the morning of the 24th.
Counting of votes for other posts was done from the night of 24th at party central office BP Nagar, Sanepa. Member Secretary Katuwal informed that it took 12 days to count the votes of 4 thousand 700 voters in the 14th Congress, but this time the counting of votes of 7 thousand 392 voters was completed in one week.
He said that nearly 162,000 ballots had to be counted this time. There were 77 types of posts in the election for a total of 229 posts, and everyone had to vote on 23 ballot papers. From the convention, Gagan Thapa was elected as the president with 94 percent votes, while Vishwaprakash Sharma was elected as senior vice president, Dr Chandrakant Bhandari and I Madhu Acharya as open vice presidents, Pushpa Bhusal as women vice president and Vinod Chaudhary as inclusive vice president.
Similarly, a strong working committee of inclusive and academic character including Pradeep Poudel, Udayashamsher Jabara and Dr. Dila Sangraula (Pant) has been selected in the Chief Ministership. With the completion of the oath-taking and restoration of office, the first meeting of the new central working committee is also scheduled to be held in Sanepa today.
It is said that the first meeting will decide on issues such as thanking all convention representatives, election committee, security personnel, media personnel and party line who helped to complete the historic convention. The leaders informed that the party’s district and state conventions will also be discussed in the meeting.