The Nepali Congress is set to revise the schedule for its lower-level conventions for a second time, with the party’s internal unity efforts and recent floods disrupting preparations.

General secretary Pradeep Paudel said on Sunday that the ward-level conventions, scheduled to begin Wednesday, would be rescheduled. The date for the party’s general convention, however, will remain unchanged, he said. The convention is scheduled for October 2-5.

The Central Working Committee meeting, which was underway on Sunday, is expected to take a decision on the revised schedule.

Party president Gagan Thapa has stepped up efforts to resolve internal differences and hold what he has described as a unity convention. Through various leaders, Thapa has been holding talks with former president Sher Bahadur Deuba, former acting president Purna Bahadur Khadka and leader Shekhar Koirala.

Koirala and Khadka have appeared receptive to the efforts, while Deuba and his allies have maintained that the convention should not be held until the court proceedings over the party’s leadership are resolved.

Deuba and Khadka had separately sought a review of the Supreme Court’s April 17 ruling recognising the special general convention and the central working committee elected under Thapa. The Supreme Court on August 6 allowed the review petitions to proceed.

The court subsequently refused to issue an interim order in a separate petition seeking to halt the convention schedule, clearing the way for the establishment side to move ahead with preparations.

Thapa has recently shown greater flexibility in his efforts to forge unity. The establishment side is now prepared to accept a five-point proposal put forward by Koirala about three months ago, a proposal it had previously rejected.

Koirala’s first proposal was not to make the updating of active party membership mandatory for the 15th general convention. The establishment side had previously insisted that membership updates be compulsory.

Second, Koirala had proposed that the convention be based on the membership renewals completed after the 14th general convention. He had argued that members whose memberships were renewed by December 25, 2025, should be recognised for the 15th convention. The establishment side had not agreed to this proposal at the time.

His third proposal called for the integration of office bearers and central working committee members from the previous Deuba-led central committee who are currently outside the party’s central body with the central working committee formed after the special general convention.

The fourth proposal was to form the central working performance committee with a majority of members nominated by the party president.

The fifth called for the election committee, active membership screening committee, disciplinary committee and statute amendment committee to be formed through consensus among the factions.

The establishment side had already shown some flexibility on the latter two proposals, leaving membership renewal and the integration of the two central committees as the main sticking points.

“If all sides are ready to come on board by accepting the five points put forward by Shekhar Koirala, the establishment side is positive about it. We can move ahead by accepting them,” Paudel said.