KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress central committee member Sarita Prasain has expressed disappointment over the party’s central committee meetings that have been ongoing for nearly a month without concluding whether they are regular or special conventions.

Speaking at the party’s ongoing central committee meeting on Friday, she said that a historic party like Nepali Congress should be discussing national political issues, but instead, debates were being stalled over whether the convention should take place before or after elections.

“Many previous meetings were repeatedly urged by leader Shekhar Koirala to hold the convention on time. I want to ask, why couldn’t we hold the convention on time?” she said during the meeting.

Prasain emphasized the importance of timely conventions, arguing that if the party had been able to hold timely conventions for the party’s youth and other affiliated organizations, the country would have avoided many organizational disruptions.

“By not holding conventions in time under the pretext of ‘mine or yours’ and creating 800–900 members in the youth organization, not a single person could attend when the party’s structure across the country collapsed. Therefore, conventions must be held on time—for the organization and for the country,” she added.

She also stressed that party conventions should ideally be held before elections, progressing from the ward, village, regional, district, and provincial levels to the central convention.

Highlighting that 54 percent of party workers have signed in favor of a special convention, she said, “Instead of focusing on 46 or 54 percent, let’s bring everyone together and set a single schedule for the Nepali Congress convention. I urge this.”

Regarding the dissolution of House of Representatives, she recalled the unfortunate situation in which the two largest parties, Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), formed the government, yet every government decision seemed to push the country toward a parliamentary dissolution.

“While forming the government, we had said that we would move forward with constitutional amendments. But we could not even form a committee for two and a half years. I think this is why things went this way,” she said.

Prasain concluded by asserting that even though the dissolution of House may be unconstitutional, a democratic party like Nepali Congress must immediately take a decision to contest the elections.