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PTI core committee urges ECP to allocate ‘bat’ symbol

Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 16, 2023— Denounces arrest of Marwat, ill-treatment with Shaoib Shaheen— Urges SC to put a halt on ongoing spree of forcing PTI leaders to change loyalties ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Core Committee reiterated its demand that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) should immediately announce election schedule and speed up its preparations to ensure holding of free, fair and transparent general elections on February 8, 2024 in any circumstances. PTI…

Swatantra Party begins probe against its leader Thapa

by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 14, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has started investigating bribery charges against its central committee member Mohan Jung Thapa levelled by Dhaka Kumar Shrestha, a lawmaker who was sacked following a corruption case. The Swatantra Party had suspended Shrestha in April after a leaked audio recording revealed a voice, allegedly Shrestha’s, asking for a bribe. Two weeks later, he lost his position as a member of the House…

Nepali Congress leaders say the party has failed its rank and file

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 21, 2023On Thursday, the third day of the Nepali Congress’s Central Working Committee meeting, leaders came down heavily on the leadership, accusing it of failing the party on various fronts. Leaders speaking at the meeting said that the party’s top brass has failed to instil in the Congress rank and file a sense that the party was in government. They accused that despite being the largest…

Congress calls central committee meeting after a year

Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday called the party’s central working committee meeting for July 12. The meeting had been pending for a year and is expected to see heated debates over several issues that the party has been confronting. A meeting of Deuba, vice-presidents Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung, and general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma took a decision to that effect.…

UML expels Durga Prasai from the party

Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023The CPN-UML has expelled businessman and central committee member Durga Prasai from the party. A secretariat meeting of the party held on Saturday expelled Prasai from the party, according to UML’s Deputy General Secretary Prithvi Subba Gurung. Prasai, who was once close to the Maoists, became a representative in the UML’s statute convention held in October 2021. He had entered the party through a formal function held in Jhapa…