{"id":36198,"date":"2025-11-25T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36198"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:48:50","slug":"ishwar-pokharel-announces-bid-for-uml-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ishwar-pokharel-announces-bid-for-uml-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishwar Pokharel Announces Bid for UML Chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov 25: CPN-UML Senior Vice-Chair Ishwar Pokharel on Tuesday formally announced his candidacy for the party\u2019s top post, signaling an internal push for leadership transition and organizational reform within Nepal\u2019s main opposition party.<\/p>\n<p>Pokharel declared his bid through a public statement, saying he had decided to contest the chairmanship after \u201caccepting the requests and suggestions\u201d from party members across the country who, he said, were seeking restructuring and transformation within UML.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am committed to developing the CPN (UML) into a decisive national force through collective leadership and initiative,\u201d Pokharel said, adding that responsibilities within the party should be assigned based on the qualifications and capacities of its cadres.<br \/>\nIn a notable move, Pokharel also urged incumbent chairman KP Sharma Oli to facilitate a smooth leadership handover. He expressed hope that Oli \u2014 who has led the party for years \u2014 would \u201crespect the principles of internal democracy he himself has championed\u201d and play a constructive role in the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Pokharel\u2019s announcement comes amid growing discussions within UML about generational shifts and organizational renewal ahead of the party\u2019s upcoming general convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 25: CPN-UML Senior Vice-Chair Ishwar Pokharel on Tuesday formally announced his candidacy for the party\u2019s top post, signaling an internal push for leadership transition and organizational reform within Nepal\u2019s main opposition party. Pokharel declared his bid through a public statement, saying he had decided to contest the chairmanship after \u201caccepting the requests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36200,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36198\/revisions\/36200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}