The Central Working Committee meeting of the Nepali Congress that kicked off on Wednesday is expected to dwell on several reports of the party.

Eleven reports, which were discussed at the Mahasamiti meeting in February and forwarded to the central working committee, will be discussed and necessary decisions taken on, said party leaders.

The papers presented and approved by the Mahasimit meeting were policy and organisational reports tabled by party vice-president Purna Bahadur Khadka and general secretary Gagan Thapa, respectively.

The meeting will discuss and approve those reports and agendas which were earlier forwarded by the Mahasamiti, said Congress spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat.

The meeting will make necessary changes to both papers and others as needed. Thapa's report states that the party should fight the next elections without forging an alliance.

Thapa's proposal was approved by the Mahasamiti but it became an irritant later when then-prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal took exception to it as the leader of the CPN (Maoist Centre) that had forged electoral alliances with the Congress in 2022. After the Mahasamiti endorsed Thapa's proposal, Dahal ditched the governing alliance with the Congress and took the CPN-UML aboard the government.

Later, a meeting of the party’s office bearers slightly amended Thapa's proposal and clarified that the party will contest the next elections single-handedly.

Some of the contents and proposals, including those related to the decade-long people's war waged by the Maoists, will also be discussed at the meeting, said Min Bishwokarma, head of the party's publicity department. Vice-president Khadka, in his report presented to the Mahasamiti, stated that the country incurred huge damage and losses due to the Maoist insurgency. The statement also had irked the Maoist leaders.

In the Wednesday meeting, Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba briefed the party on the situations unfolding in Bangladesh, the United Kingdom, Israel and Lebanon. She said the ministry was in regular touch with the Nepali citizens staying in the strife-hit countries.

The party expressed its hope that peace and democracy will be restored in Bangladesh as per the aspirations of the people, the Congress said in a statement issued after the meeting.

“We discussed the situation in Bangladesh and will make our position public soon,” said Mahat.

The meeting urged the Nepal government to take initiatives to ensure the safety of Nepali nationals affected by the recent incidents in Bangladesh.

At the meeting, Shankar Bhandari asked the party to raise the agenda of making Nepal a Hindu state again.

Many Mahasamiti members had signed the petition for the restoration of Hindu state, Bhandari said. “The party should adopt it as its formal agenda.”

Bhandari also raised the issue of the suppression of, and attacks on, Hindu minorities in Bangladesh during the month-long unrest.