Nepal, Nov. 24 -- Nepali Congress general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma have kept on pressuring party President Sher Bahadur Deuba for leadership change of the party as dispute about the timing of the party's convention continues.

Both Thapa and Sharma are lobbying to hold the party's general convention, be it as the regular 15th general convention or as a special convention as demanded by 54 percent elected representatives for the general convention, ahead of the March 5 parliamentary elections.

But the establishment faction led by Deuba has been insisting on holding the regular convention only after the March election.

The party has been in a fix for one and half months over whether to hold a special or regular co...