NCP Announces Schedule for Unity National Convention

Kathmandu, April 1 – The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has announced it will hold its Unity National Convention in December. The Central Coordination Committee, chaired by party coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, decided during a meeting that the convention will take place in Kathmandu from December 11 to 15. The party released this schedule through an official statement on Saturday.

The party will conduct a membership renewal and expansion campaign until the end of August. By September 15, ward-level conventions will be completed; by mid-September to the end of the month, municipal conventions; by the end of Ashwin, district conventions; and by November 15, provincial conventions. The party’s spokesperson, Prakash Jwala, informed that by the end of Jestha, all organizational units from central to provincial, district, local municipalities, wards, and neighborhood levels, as well as affiliated party and mass/front organizations, will be unified and adjusted accordingly.

All committees from ward to central level will be elected proportionally and inclusively, ensuring inclusion of experienced, mature, youth, and new youth members. The party has committed to achieving up to 50 percent representation of youth and new young members. The NCP has formed a Constituent Amendment Suggestion Task Force comprising leaders Dev Prasad Gurung, Prakash Jwala, Prem Bahadur Singh, Randhawa Limbu, Rekha Sharma, Ganesh Bishwakarma, senior advocates Dr. Muktinarayan Pradhan and Dr. Khimalal Devkota, advocate Jagdev Chaudhary, Dambar Bikram Karki, and Dr. Rambahadur Chaudhary.

The Coordination Committee formed after the party’s unification held meetings from March 2 to April 26, during which it decided to complete the Central Working Committee in accordance with the party’s interim statute 2082, spokesperson Jwala added.