The meeting called by Nepali Congress leader Dr Shekhar Koirala is underway at Baluwatar on Tuesday afternoon.
This meeting, which started at 2 pm at the Liaison Office in Baluwatar, plans to formulate a strategy for the central working committee (CWC) meeting scheduled for Thursday.
General Secretary Bishwa Prakash Sharma and central member Pradeep Paudel were also invited to the meeting.
However, both the leaders did not participate in this meeting. Leader Pradeep Paudel, who was invited to the meeting, is going to China to participate in a two-day program on Tuesday. That is why he did not participate in the meeting.
General Secretary Sharma did not attend the meeting saying that attending the meeting summoned by the non-establishment faction just before the CWC meeting of the party would send a wrong message across the political spectrum.
Sharma contested the elections from the panel of leader Prakash Man Singh in the 14th General Convention of the Nepali Congress. Singh is now in the camp led by President Sher Bahadur Deuba while Sharma is close to the non-establishment faction.
Earlier, Sharma had helped another General Secretary Gagan Thapa, who is from the non-establishment faction, in the Congress Parliamentary Party election.
Paudel, who also contested for the post of General Secretary on behalf of Krishna Prasad Sitaula, lost the elections.
The Sitaula group participated in the convention together with the Deuba camp.
Koirala called the meeting with the strategy of presenting a solidarity from the non-establishment faction in the party's CWC meeting.
All leaders loyal to non-establishment faction have been invited to this meeting.
The meeting was supposed to chalk out a future strategy based on the suggestions from Sharma and Paudel in the CWC meeting, according to sources.
