With the possibility of the Central Working Committee not deciding on a general convention before the election increasing, Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa is busy with the homework for a special general convention. Thapa, who was absent from the Central Working Committee meeting on Thursday, met with leaders from his party.

A central member close to him said that after acting president Purna Bahadur Khadka asked him to only express his opinion on the schedule of the general convention without taking a decision on the schedule of the general convention in the central working committee, General Secretary Thapa started to be busy with outside meetings. Thapa and another general secretary Bishwaprakash Sharma have been saying that a special general convention is the only option if the proposed schedule for December 16-19 is not passed by the central working committee. 

Thapa, who had been dissatisfied after acting president Khadka did not allow him to bring a schedule to complete the general convention before the elections, did not go to the meeting on November 13, even though he was in Kathmandu. After that, he was allowed to personally propose the schedule even though there was no agreement. 

On Tuesday, amidst disagreement, Thapa proposed in the meeting to hold the central general convention from December 16-19. The establishment-oriented leaders, who disagreed with the schedule, asked Joint General Secretary Mahendra Yadav to propose a counter proposal for April 27-29. There is a provision in the statute for the general secretary to propose a proposal in the central working committee meeting. However, the former office bearers of the establishment party had gone beyond their jurisdiction and asked Joint General Secretary Yadav to present their side's proposal. 

The members' expressions of opinion have not ended in the Congress meeting on Thursday. In the polarization over whether to hold the party's general convention before or after the election, some leaders of the establishment party have urged the leadership to find a middle-ground solution. Among the seven former office bearers of the establishment party, Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Prakash Man Singh, Bimalendra Nidhi, Shashank Koirala, and Vijay Kumar Gachhadar are not in favor of holding the general convention before Baisakh. 

Among the seven former office bearers, Gopal Man Shrestha is currently in India for medical treatment. Prakash Sharan Mahat, who is also the current spokesperson, has been holding a middle-ground view, holding the general convention in Baisakh if ​​the election is held on 21 Falgun and in Falgun if the election is postponed. A proposal similar to Mahat's has been made by central member NP Saud. 

Among the former office bearers, Sitaula has been seen as the most liberal on the issue of holding the general convention. Sitaula, who planned to contest for the presidency himself with the help of former office bearers before the Gen-G movement, is accused by the other party of trying to avoid the unfavorable time after the Gen-G movement. Sitaula, who tried to extend the general convention for a favorable time, has still been telling leaders close to him that he has not withdrawn from the presidency competition. 

Sitaula and other office bearers have not appeared ready to bring the agenda before Baisakh. ‘The general convention cannot be held under any circumstances before the elections. If the general secretaries do not want to go to the elections, a proposal for the restoration of the parliament should be brought in the meeting, if they want to go to the elections, a proposal should be brought. Elections and general conventions cannot go together,’ said Sitaula. 

On the other hand, the establishment party has been accusing the general secretaries Thapa and Sharma of making a strategy to hold the general convention only next Mangshir by bringing the general convention schedule in Baisakh. ‘There is a possibility that the February 21 election will be moved to Baisakh. Now that the party’s general convention is being held in Baisakh, it can be understood that the party’s general convention is being planned to be held in Mangshir in 2006 by showing the election again,’ said a leader close to General Secretary Thapa. 

In the meeting, Sitaula was also accused of creating unrest within the party by becoming a National Assembly member immediately after losing the election. Central member Amrit Aryal had opposed Sitaula in the meeting, saying that he had come to the National Assembly through a ‘thief’ path after losing the 2079 House of Representatives election. The constitution has made it impossible for a person who loses an election to be a minister in the same term. The main meaning of the constitution is that a person who loses an election cannot even be an MP during the term in which he loses an election. However, Sitaula, who is also the coordinator of the drafting committee of the current constitution, was made an MP of the National Assembly. 

‘Sitaulaji also lost the election in the 2079 election in an alliance with the Maoists. "You got a National Assembly member right after losing the election," said Aryal, who is on the establishment side, "Will you protest that no kind of general convention can be held before the election now?" He warned against considering the issue of a special general convention demanded by the signatures of 54 percent of the general convention delegates as a joke. 

Central member Saud said that a solution should be found by looking at the general convention in relation to the election. "If the date of the general convention is set after the election, then if the Falgun election is postponed, the general convention will also have to be postponed further," he said. "On the one hand, the party central committee should not become a prisoner of indecision, and on the other hand, it should not make a hasty decision and regret it later."

In the meeting, central member Arjun Narsingh KC said that the establishment side's claim that the general convention cannot be held by mid-Mansir is unnatural. ‘There is an example of us holding the party’s 11th general convention in 40 days of preparation, even during the reign of the king and the peak of the Maoist armed conflict,’ said KC.

 He proposed that the Congress should take the initiative to form a high-level judicial commission under the chairmanship of a former Chief Justice to take strict action against the notorious corruption, economic crimes and misrule. ‘It is necessary to investigate the assets allegedly kept illegally by Nepalis in foreign banks and take the necessary steps to nationalize the illegal assets,’ he said. KC proposed that the constitution should be amended to provide for a constitutional president and a directly elected prime minister for governance reform. His proposal mentions that the number of members of the federal parliament and provincial assemblies should be reduced by 50 percent.