Lalitpur Nepal January 3, ANI Nepal's former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda has been re-elected as chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal for the next term.
The first Central Committee meeting held in Lalitpur city on Monday after the completion of the 8th General Convention, Dahal was re-elected as the executive of the party, a position he has been sticking with for three and a half decades.
The leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha was the proponent and Krishna Bahadur Mahara was the supporter of the proposal to re-elect Prachanda as party chair, which was a unanimous decision made by the meeting. The re-elected Chairman took the oath of office as soon as the meeting approved the proposal.
The 8th General Convention of the Maoist Centre started on December 26 and ended with the names of 236 central committee members on January 2.
The names of the office-bearers are yet to be finalised as the aspirants for the post turned unmanageable due to the large number.