Maoist Center forms 21-member office bearers, 17-member election manifesto draft committee

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Aug. 20: The meeting of the standing committee (SC) of the CPN (Maoist Center) has endorsed names of 21 office bearers.

According to the decision of the SC meeting, Narayan Kaji Shrestha has been senior vice chairman, Krishna Bahadur Mahara has been chairman and Dev Prasad Gurung has been endorsed as the general secretary.

The meeting also decided to form a 17-member election manifesto drafting committee led by the senior vice-chairman of the party, Narayan Kaji Shrestha.

Barsha Man Pun, Pampha Bhusal, Janardan Sharma, Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, Shakti Basnet, Matrika Yadav, and Haribol Gajurel have been named as the party's deputy general secretaries. 

Dinanath Sharma, Chakrapani Khanal, Devendra Paudel, Lila Mani Pokharel, Ganesh Shah, Hitman Shakya, Hitraj Pandey, Dilaram Acharya, and Ram Karki have been endorsed as the party's secretaries, and Shree Ram Dhaka; as the party's treasurer.

Dev Gurung, Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, Barshaman Pun, Janardan Sharma, Shakti Basnet, Leelamani Pokhrel, Ganesh Sah, Parshuram Tamang, Amrita Thapa, Parshuram Ramtel, Jagat Shimkhada, Jakir Hussein, Hari Roka, Min Bahadur Shrestha, Mira Dhungana and Krishna Chaudhari are members of the election manifesto drafting committee, according to the party secretary Hitman Shakya.