{"id":22736,"date":"2026-08-14T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:21:50","slug":"deuba-given-status-of-party-president-at-chundevi-office-deepening-visible-rift-in-nepali-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dissident faction of the Nepali Congress has accorded Sher Bahadur Deuba the status of party president at its contact office in Chundevi, Kathmandu, further exposing the leadership dispute within the party.<\/p>\n<p>The faction established the separate contact office in Chundevi after the working committee elected by the special general convention held last Poush began operating from the Nepali Congress central office in Sanepa.<\/p>\n<p>At the Chundevi office, a separate chamber has been arranged for Deuba and a signboard identifying him as \u201cNepali Congress President\u201d has been installed.<\/p>\n<p>Deuba, who returned to Kathmandu from abroad on Thursday, was given a grand welcome by leaders and cadres of the faction at Tribhuvan International Airport before proceeding to the Chundevi office.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after arriving at the airport, Deuba called for party unity. He also said he wanted to pass on his political experience to the younger generation and play a role in promoting national unity.<\/p>\n<p>However, his subsequent appearance at the Chundevi office in the capacity of party president has made the internal division within the Nepali Congress increasingly visible.<\/p>\n<p>While the leadership elected by the special general convention continues to operate from the party\u2019s central office in Sanepa, the Deuba faction has begun conducting political activities from a separate office while presenting him as the legitimate party president.<\/p>\n<p>With two rival sides now asserting their respective leadership claims within the same party, the dispute has moved beyond political disagreement and become visible at the organizational level.<\/p>\n<p>Although Deuba has publicly emphasized the need for unity, the establishment of a separate presidential office and the continuation of parallel political activities suggest that an immediate resolution of the Nepali Congress leadership dispute remains unlikely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"time\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Media Correspondent A dissident faction of the Nepali Congress has accorded Sher Bahadur Deuba the status of party president at its contact office in Chundevi, Kathmandu, further exposing the leadership dispute within the party. The faction established the separate contact office in Chundevi after the working committee elected by the special general convention held &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dragon Media Correspondent A dissident faction of the Nepali Congress has accorded Sher Bahadur Deuba the status of party president at its contact office in Chundevi, Kathmandu, further exposing the leadership dispute within the party. The faction established the separate contact office in Chundevi after the working committee elected by the special general convention held &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61560346806474\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"957\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dragon Media\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dragon Media\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dragon Media\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cbbc40ba051fb45aeb6f5846f090f5eb\"},\"headline\":\"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/sh.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736\",\"name\":\"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/sh.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/sh.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/sh.jpg\",\"width\":957,\"height\":480},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?p=22736#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e\",\"description\":\"committed to true &amp; factual news.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/3.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/03\\\/3.png\",\"width\":511,\"height\":113,\"caption\":\"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/profile.php?id=61560346806474\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cbbc40ba051fb45aeb6f5846f090f5eb\",\"name\":\"Dragon Media\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Dragon Media\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\\\/?author=4\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media","og_description":"Dragon Media Correspondent A dissident faction of the Nepali Congress has accorded Sher Bahadur Deuba the status of party president at its contact office in Chundevi, Kathmandu, further exposing the leadership dispute within the party. The faction established the separate contact office in Chundevi after the working committee elected by the special general convention held &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736","og_site_name":"Dragon Media","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61560346806474","article_published_time":"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":957,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dragon Media","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dragon Media","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736"},"author":{"name":"Dragon Media","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#\/schema\/person\/cbbc40ba051fb45aeb6f5846f090f5eb"},"headline":"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress","datePublished":"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736"},"wordCount":300,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg","articleSection":["News","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736","name":"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress - Dragon Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg","datePublished":"2026-08-14T04:21:50+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sh.jpg","width":957,"height":480},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=22736#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Deuba Given Status of Party President at Chundevi Office, Deepening Visible Rift in Nepali Congress"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#website","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/","name":"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e","description":"committed to true &amp; factual news.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#organization","name":"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3.png","width":511,"height":113,"caption":"\u0921\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0917\u0928 \u092e\u093f\u0921\u093f\u092f\u093e"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61560346806474"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/#\/schema\/person\/cbbc40ba051fb45aeb6f5846f090f5eb","name":"Dragon Media","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png","url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/dragon-media-thumnail-512-96x96.png","caption":"Dragon Media"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np"],"url":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?author=4"}]}},"views":543,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}