Kathmandu, June 22 -- The Nepal Red Cross Society is mired in fresh dispute over its leadership as the Central Executive Committee faces dissolution, weeks from the end of its two-year tenure on July 17.

The existing leadership had scheduled a general convention for June 25-27 to elect a new committee. But that has been called off due to intervention by the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens. The current committee was elected on 18 July 2023.

Two parallel committees existed until they reached a reconciliation on October 20, 2024.

Netra Prasad Timilsina, who is serving as Nepal's ambassador to Malaysia, led a parallel committee. Ahead of his parliamentary hearing, a case was sub judice in the Supreme Court seeking his conti...