Kathmandu: CPN-UML’s central committee meeting on Sunday has formed a 45-member Standing Committee.
The office bearers of the party will be 19 ex-officio Standing Committee members who were elected to top leadership through the party’s recently-concluded tenth national congress. The rest of the appointees were appointed by Sunday’s central committee meeting.
The Standing Committee includes five former Maoists: Ram Bahadur Thapa, Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatt, Mani Thapa, and Prabhu Sah.
The full list of the UML’s newly-formed Standing Committee is as follows.
KP Sharma Oli
Ishwar Pokharel
Asta Laxmi Shakya
Yubaraj Gyawali
Ram Bahadur Thapa
Bishnu Poudel
Surendra Pandey
Subas Chandra Nembang
Shankar Pokharel
Prithvi Subba Gurung
Pradeep Gyawali
Bishnu Prasad Rimal
Gokarna Bista
Chhabilal Bishwakarma
Top Bahadur Rayamajhi
Padma Aryal
Yogesh Bhattarai
Raghubir Mahaseth
Lekhraj Bhatt
Ghanshyam Bhusal
Guru Baral
Devraj Ghimire
Bhim Acharya
Lalbabu Pandit
Khagraj Adhikari
Kiran Gurung
Kashinath Adhikari
Raghuji Pant
Bhanubhakta Dhakal
Manichandra Thapa
Sherdhan Rai
Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Yamlal Kandel
Agni Kharel
Prabhu Sah
Dr. Rajan Bhattarai
Sita Poudel
Binda Pande
Gorakh Bahadur Bogati
Karna Bahadur Thapa
Rajendra Gautam
Thammaya Thapa
Sher Bahadur Tamang
Shivamaya Tumbahangphe
Hikmat Karki
The central committee meeting also formed a 99-member politburo.
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