Kathmandu, Jan. 14 -- The central committee meeting called by the Nepali Congress acting president Purna Bahadur Khadka for Tuesday has been postponed until Wednesday morning owing to the uncertainty over its outcome amid escalating factional rivalry.

The meeting was called to discuss the situation after general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma went ahead with their plan to select a new leadership for the Congress by organising a special general convention. This was also the demand of the majority of the general convention representatives.

According to Congress office secretary Krishna Prasad Paudel, although the central committee was due to meet at the party office in Sanepa, it could not convene as senior leaders gath...