According to a party leader close to Koirala, the nominees are Bhim Bahadur Tamang, Narahari Acharya, Padma Narayan Chaudhary, Bimalendra Nidhi, Dil Bahadur Gharti, Gopal Raj Pahadi, Pharmulla Mansur, Leela Koirala and Ram Krishna Tamrakar. Only Nidhi among the new faces in the CWC is close to senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba. [break]
Koirala expanded the CWC amidst demands from the Deuba camp for a meeting of the committee to decide on the party´s candidate for the prime ministerial election starting on Wednesday.
But Koirala had remained indifferent to the call as he would be in a minority in the CWC if it were to decide the prime ministerial candidate as demanded by the Deuba camp. With these nominations, Koirala is now in a comfortable position to endorse his choice for prime ministerial candidate -- Ram Chandra Paudel.
Koirala is likely to call a CWC meeting for Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, leaders close to Deuba held a separate meeting at the Deuba residence at Budhanilkantha Monday to discuss the present political situation and the party´s forming a new government. According to Gopal Man Shrestha, they are to meet on Tuesday afternoon also.
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