Kathmandu: CPN-UML 13th Central Committee meeting has started in Baluwatar. This is the first meeting of the UML after the dismissal of the 10th National General Convention Organizing Committee.

But even in today’s meeting, senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal Group has been absent. Vice President Bamdev Gautam is participating in the meeting.

Leaders of the Madhav Nepal group Surendra Pandey, Gokarna Bista and Bhim Acharya had reached Baluwatar before the meeting. They have come out after holding talks with Chairman KP Sharma Oli. The Madhav group had requested to stop the meeting.