Kathmandu, Dec 31: The Nepal Trade Union Congress has submitted a memorandum to Nepali Congress president and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, calling for representation of workers in the election to the National Assembly member.
The NTUC is the labour wing of the Nepali Congress. An NTUC delegation led by its president Yogendra Kumar Kunwar today met with party president Deuba and called for ensuring the representation of labourers in the National Assembly election.
Union’s general-secretary Ajaya Kumar Rai said a meeting of the NTUC office-bearers has recommended the names of the Union’s former president Laxman Bahadur Basnet, Khilanath Dahal and Pushkar Acharya to the member of the NA, the upper chamber of the Federal Parliament. The list of recommended names has been handed over to party president Deuba.
The NTUC has drawn the attention of the party president, while issuing the tickets, to select the candidates from the party for the NA election from among the persons in the professional organisations, including the trade union, and intellectuals who were not given tickets in the last election, not included in the proportional representation quota and who are qualified and with clean image. In the meeting, party president Deuba said that the party would select the candidates who represent all sectors for the National Assembly election.
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