Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday made nominations in the party’s 13 central departments as per the party statute, it is said.

Accordingly, Gopal Man Shrestha has been named as the chief of party organisation department, Ramesh Rijal chief of federal affairs and state coordination department, Pharmullah Mansoor chief of Muslim department , Arjun Prasad Joshi chief of local level coordination department, Ananda Prasad Dhungana chief of financial institutions and cooperative coordination department, Ajaya Kumar Chaurasiya chief of Tarai-Madhes coordination department and Mahendra Yadav chief of transport entrepreneurs coordination department.

Similarly, Shankar Bhandari has been nominated as the chief of Tarun department, Sita Gurung chief of indigenous nationalities department, Govinda Bhattarai chief of Nepali public liaison committee coordination department, Chinkaji Shrestha chief of industry and trade department, Bishow Prakash Sharma chief of information, communications and publicity department and Shiva Prasad Humagain chief of workers and trade union department.

President Deuba also nominated Krishna Kishor Ghimire (Dang), Gopal Kumar Basnet (Jhapa), Sudhir Kumar Siwakoti (Jhapa), Manohar Narayan Shrestha (Dhankuta) and Dhruba Wagle (Tanahun) as invitee members of the party central working committee, said chief secretary at NC central office, Krishna Prasad Poudel.