General Secretary of the CPN (Maoist Center) Dev Prasad Gurung has categorically stated that picking a presidential candidate from outside the political background is beyond imagination.
Speaking at a program organized by Sambad Dawali in Kathmandu on Friday, Gurung said as long as the current federal political federal setup exists the candidate for the post of the President must be elected from the political background .
He made it clear that his party has not raised this issue nor has it been the agenda of the five-party ruling alliance.
“I have not received such information officially from my party. The current ruling alliance has also not raised the agenda of seeking the presidential candidate from outside the political circle.”
Appointing a candidate to the post of the President from outside political background would constitute self-defeatism at a time when foreign interventions are taking a new height, said Gurung.
He went on to say the idea of appointing a non-political figure contradicts the current political system and maintained that Head of State should be elected from among those who come from political background, holds political ideology.
