Guru Baral nominated UML Vice Chair, 17 central members added

Kathmandu, Aug 1: The CPN (UML) has decided to nominate Guru Baral to the vacant post of Vice Chair of the party.     

UML General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel shared that the UML Secretariat meeting held today decided to nominate standing committee member Baral as the Vice Chair.     

The post was vacant after the death of then Vice chair Subhas Chandra Nembang. Similarly, it has been decided to nominate Mukunda Neupane and Leelanath Shrestha to the standing committee. General Secretary Pokhrel further informed that the meeting nominated 17 central members as well.     

According to him, Subas Karmacharya (Sindhupalchok), Kundan Kushwaha (Rautahat), Jitendra Dev (Saptari), Rampreet Paswan (Siraha), Krishnabhakta Pokharel (Chitwan), Kamalkrishna Timilsina (Achham) and Gobinda Pun (Salyan) have been nominated to CC members. Similarly, Kedar Sigdel (Tanahun), Manmohan Paudel (Parbat), Hardev Joshi (Darchula), Hari Upreti (Sarlahi), Indra Bhandari (Jhapa), Mahesh Bartaula (Makwanpur), Sarita Bhusal, Prabha Baral (Kaski), Manju Sharma Chalise (Baglung) and Asha Javegu (Panchthar) have been nominated to the CC as members.     

 The meeting has also shuffled the responsibility of leaders of province in-charge.     

According to General Secretary Pokharel, Sherdhan Rai has been appointed as Koshi Province in-charge, Leelanath Shrestha as Madhes Province in-charge, Dr Rajan Bhattarai as Bagmati Province in-charge, Kiran Gurung as Gandaki Province in-charge, Padma Aryal as Lumbini Province in-charge, Gorakh Bahadur Bogati as in-charge of Karnali Province and Lekhnath Bhatt as in-charge of Sudurpaschim Province.(RSS)