Today's NC CWC meeting to dwell on PM candidate

The Nepali Congress has called the meeting of its central working committee (CWC) today to decide its official position on how to find consensus in view of the deadline given by the President.

NC sources claimed that the CWC is likely to pick its prime ministerial candidate. According to them, the party is under tremendous pressure to name its PM candidate with the November 29 deadline just a day away.

Party president Sushil Koirala, who is projected as the party's PM candidate, has been in hectic talks with leaders of different parties over the last few days to win their support for the NC to get government leadership.

The CPN (UML) has already expressed its support to the NC while the UCPN (Maoist) has been saying that it is not ready to give up government leadership until there is an agreement on all outstanding political issues, chief new constitution. nepalnews.com