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Eye on polls, UCPN (M) reshuffles portfolios

With a view to making its election campaign ‘more effective’ and result-oriented, the UCPN moists on Sunday reshuffled the party’s bureaus and state committee.

With the shuffle, the party kicked off its second round of campaign that will continue until October 1.

After the first round of the campaign that concluded recently in all the 240 constituencies, party leaders  had suggested that they need to manage intra-party problems before the November 19 Constituent Assembly election. The Central Committee (CC) meeting that concluded on Monday after a week appointed Barsha Man Pun, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Shakti Basnet, Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Ram Chandra Jha as chiefs of the eastern, western, far-western, central and Madhes bureaus.

Dina Nath Sharma has been appointed the chief of the international bureau, Nanda Kishor Pun was given the youth bureau, Janardhan Sharma the special bureau and Agni Sapkota the information and communications bureau. All the leaders, except Rayamajhi, are close to Party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and they will remain in the positions until the polls.

Leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha expressed displeasure at the appointments after his supporters were sidelined. Top leaders Dahal, Baburam Bhattarai, Shrestha and Post Bahadur Bogati will, meanwhile, focus on areas where the party’s position is weak.

“The CC assigned the responsibilities for the November 19 election,” said Party spokesperson Agni Prasad Sapkota. The CC meeting also decided to speed up work related to the selection of candidates for the election.

The party had earlier formed a committee under Bogati to select the candidates, while the leaders who visited the constituencies for the first round of campaigning have already submitted a list of possible candidates to the party headquarters.

The CC meeting also formed an ‘office headquarters,’ to take important decisions. Members of this body include Dahal, Bhattarai, Shrestha and Bogati. Earlier, the party had a seven-member officer bearers’ team known as the party headquarters, but the UCPM moists extended plenum recently diss

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KATHMANDU, SEP 03 -

Diesel generator sets that are increasingly being used for the daily power needs in households and offices have been found emitting more harmful gases than vehicles in the Kathmandu valley, according to a report.

A study, ‘Diesel for Power Generation: Inventories and Black Carbon Emissions in Kathmandu Valley,’ has found that the annual dissel consumption for captive power generation from generator sets in Kathmandu was around

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Candidate pick major NC challenge

Selection of candidates who will contest the November 19 election has emerged one of the major challenges for the Nepali congress (NC) with the number of aspirants going up unexpectedly high.

The grand-old party has kept hedging the formation of its parliamentary board, a body that picks the party’s candidates, fearing factional tensions, as it has been one of the most contentious issues following the demise of Girija Prasad Koirala in 2010. Much like in other parties, the NC is a divided house, split between factions led by Party President Sushil Koirala and Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba.

While the party is yet to form the board, mainly due to the factional feud, the central office is flooded with a long list of names from all the 240 constituencies.

The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the party had directed its district wings to recommend names of eight persons (three for the first-past-the-post and five for the proportional representation system) from each constituency.  

For example, 18 leaders have been recommended from constituency-1 in Palpa district, while 21 leaders have been recommended from constituency-2. Party leaders say the situation is similar in all other districts.

Leaders say how the party leadership handles the flood of aspiring candidates will shape the party’s election campaign.

Selecting a candidate, according to NC leader Prakash Saran Mahat, is a very sensitive issue at the moment. “Enmity at the local level will grow if district-level leaders start short-listing the candidates in a bid to help the centre. “So a longer list of aspiring candidates has been recommended to avoid disputes at the district level,” said Mahat.

According to leaders, the long list is also meant to avoid proxy candidates. As there is a clear factional division right from the centre to the grassroots level, leaders from both the factions are competing to push for their own candidates.

Leaders say there are some other leaders at the district level who do not subscribe to both the factions and still want to file their candidacy.

Insiders in the party also point out to an equally compelling fact that the party is having a hard time implementing its  ‘historic policy shift’ in the last General Convention to make the party more inclusive, which included a complex quota system for Dalits, women, Madhesis and other marginalised groups.

NC leaders said a larger list of candidates would help the centre prepare an inclusive list and to that end the party has directed the districts to recommend the names by incorporating women, Dalit and people from marginalised communities. According to some leaders, the absence of local elections for the last 15 years has left many leaders, who would have adjusted at different positions in the local government bodies, waiting for a chance in national elections.

Leaders from both the factions say it is high time the leadership, from both Koirala and Deuba factions, came to an immediate agreement. “If the party selects the candidates properly, the NC will emerge the largest party in the polls,” said Ramesh Rijal.

Leaders deployed in the districts have presented a report that the NC’s ground position has been strengthening, but that the problem lies at the central level. During the party’s Mahasamiti meeting in April, a majority of the leaders said the ‘flawed’ candidate selection process was one of the major reasons for the party to fare badly in the 2008 election.

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CDC report on EC table for implementation

KATHMANDU, SEP 03 -

In view of the fast approaching Constituent Assembly date, the government has forwarded the report of the Constituency  Delimitation Commission (CDC) to the Election Commission (EC) without giving any timeline to implement the report.

Submitting the 135-page report on August 8 to Chairman of Interim Election Council Khil Raj Regmi, the CDC document retained all the existing 240 constituencies—116 in the Madhes and 124 each in the Hill and the Mountain. The report has also proposed the same population threshold of 112,000 for a constituency for all the three regions.

However, it has also proposed seat adjustment as per the population in at least 40 districts, including Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kavre, Nuwakot, Gorkha, Baglung, Palpa, Dhankuta, Gulmi, Parbat, Taplejung, Sunsari, Sarlahi, Kailali, Parsa and Rupandehi.

Holding a meeting on Monday, the Cabinet also decided to make public the report by publishing a notice in Nepal Gazette, the official publication of the government.

The meeting also decided appoint Joint-secretary at the Water and Energy Commission Arjun Karki to the post of Executive Director at the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). The post has remained vacant since August 20 after the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested NEA Managing Director Rameshwor Yadav for his alleged involvement in NEA transformer procurement scam.

“Karki will serve as executive director until another arrangement is made,” said government spokesperson Madhav Poudel.

Earlier in the day, a board meeting of the NEA paved the way to the government to appoint executive director. Karki has already served at the NEA in the same post for two years in the past.

The government transferred six joint-secretaries to the CIAA. Mukunda Raj Panthi of Ministry of General Administration); and Hari Raj Panta, Ramadhin Yadav and Durga Prasad Pokhrel of Ministry of Home Affairs; Bishow Nath Dhakal of National Security Council; and Kishor Nath Gongol of Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transportation have been shifted to the CIAA. All the transfers were proposed by the CIAA.

The anti-graft body is soon opening its five regional offices that will led by newly transferred five joint-secretaries. The government has already given consent to the CIAA to open its regional branches in Dhankuta, Hetuda, Pokhara, Surket and Dipyal.

The meeting also promoted three Nepal Army Brigadier Generals to the posts of Major Generals—Padam Bilas Karki, Bijaya Moktan and Himalaya Thapa.

Similarly, three Colonels Bishownath Ghimire, Kuber Thapa and Tek Bahadur Singh have been promoted to the post of Brigadier Generals, according to Poudel.

Meanwhile, the government also gave nod to NA chief Gen Gaurav Sumsher Rana to visit the United Kingdom and decided to be a member of the International Standard Organization.