Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies Elects New Leadership

Kathmandu. A special general assembly and election are being held today for the new leadership of the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies. An election is being held today to elect a new working committee after the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, dissolved the previous working committee. 

In the election, businessmen affiliated with Nepali Congress, CPN UML, Nepali Communist Party, and Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) have entered the electoral field by forming panels. Former Chairman Meghnath Bhurtel and former first Vice-Chairmen Dik Bahadur Khatri and Haribahadur Pandey have filed their candidacies with their respective panels for the leadership of the association. 

Bhurtel is leading the panel from the Nepal Democratic Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs Association close to the Nepali Congress. Similarly, Khatri is leading the panel from the Progressive Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs Forum close to CPN UML. Dissatisfied businessmen close to the democratic group of Congress have also supported Khatri's panel. Similarly, Pandey is leading the third panel. 

A total of 51 candidates from all three panels have registered their nominations for the 7 office bearers and 10 members of the 17-member new working committee of the association. 

This is how the situation of mid-term elections arose 

Previously, Bhuvan Singh Gurung was elected as the chairman of the association from the 31st general assembly held on Chaitra 29, 2081. However, shortly after being elected, strong dissatisfaction arose within the working committee regarding his working style. 

Accusing Gurung of running the association like his personal company and trying to move forward arbitrarily, two-thirds of the office bearers and members resigned under the leadership of General Secretary Mahesh Kumar Basnet. 

With the resignation of the majority of members, the working committee was dissolved according to the association's bylaws, and a new management committee was formed. That management committee set the date for the special general assembly and election for Jestha 24. 

However, the dispute did not stop there. Gurung claimed that he was still the official chairman, and the dispute reached the administration. 

Finally, the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, intervened in this matter, completely dissolved the working committee led by Gurung, and gave a strict directive to complete the special general assembly and election on the scheduled date. 

Former Chairman Rajendra Bhandari informed that the association's election is being held today in accordance with that directive from the administration.