Kathmandu, June 7 : The Election Commission (EC) has registered Nepal Communist Party (NCP), around three weeks post merger between the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre).
During a meeting of the EC commissioners here on Wednesday, it decided to give legal status to the NCP.
Though NCP failed to include 33 per cent women leaders in the central committee of the newly-formed party, the poll panel decided to register the party hoping that the party would later fulfill the legal criterion, a report in Nepal daily The Himalayan Times quoted Election Commissioner Narendra Dahal as saying.
In the 441-member central committee, the NCP (NCP) only has 16 per cent women representatives.
The party’s 45-member Standing Committee has two women leaders, while there are no women representatives in the nine-member Central Secretariat.
As per the Party Registration Act which states that a party needs to ensure 33 percent representation of women from the central to local levels, the NCP will have to either replace male leaders with female or increase the number of central committee by inducting women leaders to abide by the EC decision.
He added that the EC decided to register NCP (NCP) because there was no other party with the same name. NCP changed its name to NCP (NCP) after it found that there was one party with the name of NCP led by Rishi Kattel.
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