The party will propose Paudel’s name for next premiership during the party’s CWC meeting scheduled for Thursday, Koirala said while speaking in Reporters Club Nepal on Sunday. [break]
Along with Poudel, who previously failed to get elected for the post eighteen straight times, party Chairman Sushil Koirala and party senior leaders Sher Bahadur Deuba are seen as possible candidates for the post of PM, this time.
“The president should stay focused on the party (activities). Senior leader Deuba, as a guardian of the party should get on consolidating the party. That’s why it is most appropriate to push Poudel as the party’s PM candidate,” she said.
She further said she would back the proposal with Paudel as the next PM. She also said the country should go to new polls rather reinstating the dissolved Constituent Assembly.
Koirala questioned UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s mental fitness , alleging that Dahal’s too inconsistent statements are only complicating the situation in the country.
She also wrote off relevance of any protest aimed at bringing down the incumbent Baburam Bhattarai-led government. “There is no need of agitation. He (PM Bhattarai) is only awaiting NC to name its PM candidate,” Koirala added.
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