Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has expressed serious objections to the selection of candidates for the National Assembly. He has also expressed his dissenting opinion on the decision, objecting to the method, process and proposed names of the candidates.

Acting President Purna Bahadur Khadka has been holding meetings continuously for three days to select candidates for the National Assembly. However, he says that there was no discussion about the names in those meetings.

Thapa wanted to decide in Tuesday's Central Working Committee meeting to give full authority to select candidates to President Sher Bahadur Deuba. However, due to the opposition of General Secretary Thapa, a meeting of the Central Working Committee was held again on Wednesday morning.

Before discussing the names in the Central Working Committee meeting, the candidates had already been selected and went to the districts to nominate them. As per the agreement between President Deuba and Congress leader Shekhar Koirala, the Central Working Committee meeting was held only to select the candidates and approve them.

He has also raised the question of what is the basis of the alliance with the UML. Earlier, it was decided to form an alliance with the UML, the Nepali Communist Party and the Madhesi parties. Acting President Khadka had informed about this in Tuesday's meeting. However, the NCP withdrew from the alliance after a disagreement on one seat on Wednesday morning. The NCP withdrew from the alliance after the Congress and UML said that they could not give more than 3 seats to the NCP, which had asked for four seats. Thapa has also questioned its theoretical basis. He said that the collaboration with the UML ended after the Gen-G movement and questioned on what basis the coordination was made. ‘It is not a matter of numbers. In order to protect the constitution, the acting chairman told the meeting that it would be better if the three main parties that lead the constitution were together in the role that the National Assembly should play. However, today the NCP withdrew from the alliance because the numbers did not match. What is the theoretical basis for the coordination? Why did it do so? We were in an alliance with a political party on Bhadra 23 and 24. That journey ended there,’ Thapa said while talking to the media after the morning Central Work Performance Committee meeting. ‘After that, we are on a new journey. When making decisions on important political issues, the responsible party committees are not informed, the chairman does not come to the meeting, but we have to take the decision on the chairman's side and take ownership of it? It is not fair. It should not be done. I do not agree with this.'

He said that the Central Working Committee, Parliamentary Board, Central Working Committee, as well as the districts and regions, were disrespected in the selection of candidates. He objected that not a single Muslim, tribal, or ethnic group was included in the selection of candidates. Saying that two people who were not recommended by the district and region were made candidates, Thapa said that it was an act of disrespect not only to the general secretaries, but also to the party's structures and bodies.

'The meeting came to propose names. The names are yet to be proposed. The candidates have already gone to district after district with their nomination papers. The general secretaries were being disrespected, bullied, and cornered. The entire parliamentary board and the central working committee were disrespected. This level of action had not happened before. At least we had concluded the names through open discussions, but that did not happen now. That is why I have put forward a written dissenting opinion,' Thapa said, 'The other general secretary could not come to the meeting due to health reasons. He also has a dissenting opinion on this.'