Non-Resident Nepalese Association (NRNA), National Coordinating Council (NCC) America has officially split.

Due to the controversy and the impact of the split in the NRNA International Coordinating Council (ICC), the NCC America has officially split. 

NRNA has split into two parts from August 18 (Monday) in America with two different elections and the formation of different working committees. A new working committee for 2025-2027 was elected on July 28 under the chairmanship of Vikas Upreti, another working committee was elected on Monday August 18 under the chairmanship of Satendra Shah.

After the 10th Congress held in 2022, the dispute started in NRNA ICC. In the 10th Congress, the candidates for the president of ICC Dr. The competition between Badri KC, Mahesh Kumar Shrestha and RK Sharma led NRNA to split into two sides.

Even though the KC side was elected, Shrestha and Sharma sides maintained the stance that the election was not fair and did not accept KC's leadership, and the internal conflict in NRNA reached its climax. As the internal conflict of three years ago remained, the NRNA was finally divided into two different groups in America. 

America NCC president elected on July 28 Dr. Badri KC and Sah Mahesh who was elected president on August 18 are from the Shrestha party. On July 28, it was announced that the Upreti-led executive committee was elected unopposed in Dallas, Texas.  A 30-member working committee was identified under the leadership of

Upreti. Prem Tamang as senior vice president, Deepak Sapkota, Kumar Tamang, Diwakar Pandey as vice presidents, Shanti Poudyal as women vice president, Bishnu Prasad Paudel as youth vice president and Ramchandra Pant as general secretary were elected unopposed. 

Less than a month after the announcement of the working committee of the leadership, it was announced that the working committee led by Shah was elected in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 18. 

Election monitoring committee coordinator Gautam Dahal informed that according to the predetermined election schedule of the International Coordination Council (ICC), the election process has been advanced on August 17, 18 and the working committee led by Shah has been selected from the election competition.

"We have moved forward according to the ICC election agenda," he told Kantipur, "according to the results, the new working committee of NRNN America NCC led by Shah has been announced for 2025-2027." Tukprasad Regmi, head of the election committee, informed that Sah was elected after defeating his closest competitors, Kharel and Adhikari. 63.02 percent or 8 thousand 303 people voted in the election process of NRNA NCC America which has 13 thousand 175 voters. 

Election Monitoring Committee Coordinator Dahal informed that Sah, who was elected as the President, got 3,228 votes, Kharel got 2,506 votes, Adhikari got 2,063 votes and Sharma got 1,500 votes.

Dahal said that out of total voters, 411 people had declared their votes on Tathast saying that they did not want to vote for all four candidates. Santosh Pahari as Senior Vice President, Pradeep Chaulagai, Surendra Lodari, Dr. Gangadhar Archay and Angchiring Sherpa as Vice Presidents, Sunita Khatri as Women Vice President, Vijay Waiwa as Youth Vice President, Mohan Neupane as General President and Treasurer Rabindra Upreti were elected as a 30 member working committee.

Regarding the formation of two working committees from two different elections, both presidents have said that they are committed to move forward together. President Upreti, who was elected on July 28, said that the door of unity is always open on his part. He is of the opinion that NRNA America's objective is to achieve the rights and interests of NRN, so he is ready to strengthen the organization along with the achievement of the objective.

"Even if there are some disputes to come to the leadership, the situation is still there that we can reconcile and make NRNA America a unit," he said, "That's why unity and discussion are necessary between us." The center has to understand and show readiness to solve the problem in this way.

NRNA also alleged that the current situation was created when the internal dispute was handed over to the political parties of Nepal and that the political parties of Nepal played a role in weakening the NRNA.

Another president Sah said that he came to the leadership to unite NRNA. He also claimed that he would not disappoint the voters by starting an initiative to solve the internal problems of NRNA America soon. "There is no option to unite, even if the question of authority is on one side, my emphasis will be on solving the problems of the NRNs in America by strengthening the NRNA," he said.