UML dissolves General Convention Organizing Committee, Central Committee to meet on July 2

KATHMANDU, June 30: The Tenth General Convention Organizing Committee of the ruling CPN-UMl has been dissolved. 

The committee held its last meeting at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Wednesday afternoon. 

The meeting approved the Standing Committee’s Tuesday’s decision to dissolve the committee, according to Pradeep Gyawali, party spokesperson. 

The committee was formed by the party’s  faction led by Chairman KP Sharma Oli on March 22, earlier this year. 

The party’s dissident faction, led by senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, had been demanding that the party structure should be resurrected as it was on May 16, 2018. 

Meanwhile, the committee's decisions were also annulled by the Supreme Court. 

Gyawali also said that disciplinary action taken against 11 leaders of the Nepal faction has also been repealed.  He expressed his confidence that the recent move would create a base for the unification of the party. 

Gyawali alsoshared that the party's Central Committee meeting will be held on July 2.