DANG, Dec 27: The Nepali Congress (NC) Lumbini Province Working Committee meeting has formed a committee to elect the leader of the parliamentary party (PP) in the provincial assembly.
Prachanda Bikram Neupane, spokesperson for NC Lumbini Province and Lumbini Provincial Assembly Member said that this committee, formed by the meeting held in Butwal, will select the provincial PP leader. Bishnu Kumari Sapkota and Devnarayan Choudhary are members of the committee, which was formed under the coordination of NC Lumbini Province Joint General Secretary Khagarajav Pandey. According to Spokesperson Neupane, the PP leader will be selected soon after the newly-elected provincial assembly members take the oath of office and secrecy.
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To become the PP leader, four MPs who are seen aspiring for the post - Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary, Raju Khanal, Abdul Razzak and Bir Bahadur Rana - are in the race. The committee formed for the selection of the PP leader will start efforts to select the leader of the party. If this is not possible, the leader of the parliamentary party will be selected through elections. "We will try to select the PP leader through consensus," said Khagarajav Pandey of the committee.
Neupane said that due to the lack of effective leadership, the NC had to quit power. Similarly, the Lumbini Province NC has concluded that the party leadership was weak in breaking the alliance with the Maoists.
