In the meeting, Vice President Sharma is preparing to present a preliminary review of the election, the President's resignation letter, and a proposal to reject the resignation simultaneously. An official said that there is a possibility that the entire Central Working Committee will unanimously reject Thapa's resignation.
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Nepali Congress Vice President Bishwaprakash Sharma has indicated that he will reject the resignation of President Gagan Thapa. Taking moral responsibility for the party's defeat in the election, President Thapa submitted his resignation to Sharma on Wednesday.
The party statute stipulates that the president must submit his resignation to the vice president, who must present it at the central working committee meeting. The Congress meeting is starting on Friday. General Secretary Pradeep Poudel has informed that a decision will be reached after discussing President Thapa's resignation letter at the beginning of the meeting.
In the meeting, Vice President Sharma is preparing to submit a preliminary review of the election, the president's resignation letter, and a proposal to reject the resignation simultaneously. An official said that the entire central working committee is likely to reject Thapa's resignation unanimously. There is no one from the Thapa-led central working committee, which was elected at the special general convention. The office bearers and members of the Central Working Committee had been pressuring Thapa not to resign for a long time after meeting him.
President Thapa had made up his mind to resign only after the party and himself suffered defeat in the elections. Thapa had informed Vice President Sharma of his resignation during a meeting on 25 Falgun. After that, Sharma himself had been blocking Thapa's resignation. Sharma has been arguing that the party lost the elections not because of the special general convention and the president or other office bearers elected by it, but because of the corruption accumulated by the old leadership for a long time.
Some leaders of former President Deuba's faction had been demanding Thapa's resignation on social media, raising questions about morality after the expected results were not achieved in the elections. Some leaders from the Deuba faction had also suggested that President Thapa not resign and instead prepare for the special general convention together.
Vice President Sharma says that the main moral responsibility at this time is to assume the position. ‘It is positive to say that I take moral responsibility, it is not fair to blame the person who came to put out the fire for the fire,’ he says.
President Thapa has stated in his resignation letter that his decision is not a product of a defeatist mentality but an expression of responsibility. Despite resigning from the position of president, he has stated that he has not separated himself from the party’s journey of reform and reconstruction. ‘I have decided to resign from the party president, but I have not separated myself from the party’s journey of reform and reconstruction,’ he said, ‘In the coming days, I will reach different parts of the country and interact with party friends and the common people, understand the feelings of the common people and listen to suggestions, and actively engage in the journey of rebuilding the Congress.’
The special general convention held at Bhrikutimandap on 27-30 Poush dissolved the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led central working committee and elected a new working committee led by Thapa. The special general convention also passed a new policy for party transformation. The Congress, which immediately entered the election, had put forward slogans like 'Let's change the Congress, let's change the country' and 'Next year we will cross a hundred thousand'. Despite that, President Thapa himself was defeated by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh candidate Amresh Kumar Singh in Sarlahi-4, and the Congress won only 38 seats, 18 directly and 20 proportionally.
After that, a group of former President Deuba's supporters had been raising moral questions about Thapa. According to leaders, Thapa wanted to resign and become a competitor for the President in the regular general convention. However, the Central Working Committee is not in favor of accepting his resignation. General Secretary Poudel said that the President did not resign out of fear that the resignation would be accepted. 'His desire was for the resignation to be accepted. In our conversation, he also wanted it to be accepted,' he said, 'The majority of the members of the Working Committee do not seem to be in favor of resignation.'
According to General Secretary Poudel, the main responsibility of the Central Working Committee, which came from the special general convention, is to hold a regular general convention. "Therefore, the next meeting will discuss its agenda and take a decision," he says. "It is also the duty of the chairman to fulfill the responsibility given by the special general convention. Therefore, there is no escaping that responsibility. Once the meeting concludes the issue of the chairman's resignation, discussions will begin on other issues."
