Shrestha has been claiming that the president has the right to appoint senior leaders, and the acting president has also been appointed according to the statute.
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The meeting of the guardian of Civil Liberation Party (Naupa) Resham Lal Chaudhary has expelled its president Ranjita Shrestha from the party. The National Assembly in Kathmandu has removed Shrestha from the post of president, not even being an ordinary member.
On Tuesday, the Election and Disciplinary Commission recommended action against him. Based on that recommendation, the meeting held in Kathmandu on Wednesday decided to remove the chairman Shrestha, said founding central member Balveer Chaudhary. "The National Assembly has decided to remove President Shrestha as an ordinary member," he said.
Shrestha has said that the decision made by the president is not valid as the authority to call the national meeting is only with the president. There is a provision in the constitution that the president of the National Assembly calls. Therefore, the decision taken by the meeting that I did not call is not legal,” she told Kantipur. Ranjita's side is preparing to seek legal remedies regarding the meeting's decision.
There were 21 founding central members including the president, and 12 people were present at the national meeting held on Wednesday in Naupa. Similarly, the representatives elected at the union, state and local levels were called as representatives of the national assembly. Some leaders participating in the meeting boycotted the meeting saying it was illegal. There are four MPs from Naupa in the House of Representatives, but three were present except Shrestha. Similarly, five of the seven MPs from Naupa, who are members of the Sudurpaschim Provincial Assembly, participated in Wednesday's meeting.
MP Kailash Chaudhary, who is a supporter of the President, was not present, while MP Laxman Kishore Chaudhary, who was present at the meeting to ask the President for an explanation, was also absent from Wednesday's meeting. It is said that all four MPs representing Lumbini state assembly from Naupa were present in the meeting. Naupa has leadership in four local levels of Kailali namely Bhajani, Tikapur Municipality, Joshipur and Janki Rural Municipality. Naupa leader Thakursingh Tharu said that the head/deputy head, president/deputy president (people's representative) of all the four municipalities are also participating in the national gathering.
Earlier on Sunday, a majority meeting attended by 13 founding central members decided to ask President Shrestha for an explanation within 24 hours. Chairman Shrestha did not explain. Before that, the majority of the Central Committee members had given an 'ultimatum' of 24 hours on Friday 9th to call the Central Committee meeting. But President Shrestha did not hear. Instead, President Shrestha appointed senior leader Shiv Bastola, who is not a founding central member, as Acting President on Saturday according to Article 20 (9) of the Interim Law 2078.
In Article 19 of the President's Rights and Duties (6), it is said that the President shall 'delegate the powers vested in him to other officers'. After Bastola was appointed acting president, the controversy became more heated. Those who were against the chairman insisted that a person who is not a founding central member cannot be appointed acting chairman. Patron Resham Choudhary had also objected to Bastola being appointed as caretaker and said that it was wrong. Shrestha claimed that the president has the right to appoint senior leaders and that the acting president has also been appointed according to the statute. Regarding the removal of the president from the national gathering since
, Komal Gyawali, the founding central member of the president, Shrestha Pakshadhar, claimed that the removal was illegal. I am not participating in the meeting. In my opinion, there will be a dispute in this case and I do not think that this decision will be considered valid," she said. Acting nominee Shiv Bastola also claimed that the meeting and the decision of the meeting would be meaningless. It is against the law that they called the meeting. A parliamentary party cannot call a meeting. Ganga Chaudhary mentioned the general secretary and wrote a letter for the meeting," Bastola said, "He is not the general secretary, he is the leader of the parliamentary party. He was elected General Secretary from the Tikapur Convention, but everyone knows that the Election Commission did not recognize the Tikapur Convention. There is also confusion about the participating representatives of the national meeting.'
Article 13 of Naupa's Interim Statute 2078 has provisions on national gatherings. But there is no mention of the representative of the national assembly. There is a provision that the Central Committee can call a national meeting. In 13 (a) it is said that the Central Committee will organize a national assembly if it deems it necessary, while in 13 (b) it is said that the National Assembly can modify the constitution in such a way as to elect and change the members and officials of the Central Committee, Secretariat and be accountable to the Congress.
