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
