While leaders including Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba are trying to avoid the special convention, other parties of the establishment have prepared to submit 40 percent more signatures before the meeting of the central working committee. In the Congress Constitution, if a petition is submitted to the Central Committee with the signatures of 40 percent of the delegates of the convention, the president must call a special convention within three months. According to the same arrangement, more than 40 percent signatures have been collected by other parties of the establishment.

Gururaj Ghimire, the leader of the other side of the establishment, claimed that 40 percent of the signatures had been reached. "According to the telephone contact in the districts, more than two thousand signatures have already been signed." This is 40 percent more. There are more than four and a half thousand convention delegates in Congress. We are in favor of submitting a petition before the meeting of the central working committee with the signature of at least 51 percent," Ghimire told Kantipur.

Congress central working committee meeting is sitting on this 26 October. According to him, he is ready to submit a petition to the Central Committee by demanding a special convention with a signature on October 25. After reaching 51 percent of signatures, the legitimacy of calling a special convention is established by itself. Looking at the situation so far, it is seen that the number will be even more than that,' Ghimire added, 'The special convention means that the process of the regular convention will proceed . It is not only the chairman who will be removed, but a new central working committee will be elected.'

Similarly, there was a long conversation between leader Shekhar Koirala and General Minister Gagan Thapa on Monday about making the special convention result-oriented. Earlier, the two leaders discussed standing together on the agenda of the special convention many times. "The two leaders are on the same page regarding the agenda of going to a special convention to change the leadership of the party, but only different options have been put in place regarding the process," said Gobind Pokharel, a central member of the Koirala Party. In terms of agenda, both of them are in the same place.' Since

, the leaders of the founding party have been moving forward with the options of avoiding the special convention, if not possible, holding the convention after the election by assigning the responsibility of deputy chairman Purna Bahadur Khadka as the acting chairman, and if that is also not possible, going in favor of the regular convention. According to sources, Chairman Deuba, who is recuperating to postpone the special convention, is having regular telephone conversations with his close leaders. But they have not had political meetings.

Central member Nainsingh Mahar said that for the greater unity of the party, it should go to the regular convention rather than the special one. He says that there is still a situation where the active membership can be completed within a month and a regular convention can be held within November.

'The first option is to dissolve the current Central Working Committee and form the Congress Organizing Committee. If this does not happen, we can proceed by giving the responsibility of the acting chairman,'' says Mahar, "If there is a demand for a special convention with the signature of 40 percent of the members, then it is the provision of the statute. There is a need to go to a special convention within three months.'

Some leaders of the establishment party are arguing that a special convention cannot be demanded when the term is over. The tenure of the Central Working Committee is ending from November. The term of the floor level committees has also expired.

"The provision of the legislation means that if there is a demand before the four-year term is reached, but since the terms of the lower level committees have expired and the term of the central working committee is due to expire from next November, there is no point in holding a special convention," another central member near Deuba said, "What will happen now is a regular convention." She tells . "Until now, the election will be held on February 21." In order to instill confidence in the party in the current generation, a change in the current leadership is a mandatory condition, for that there is no other option but a special convention," she said, "somehow, the common workers of the party are not ready to carry the flag in the election with the current leadership. According to