Kathmandu, July 18 -- The issue of whether the party should stick to the 70-year age limit and the two-term cap for executive position holders has of late been hotly debated in the CPN-UML.

Influential party leaders are divided.

However, a proposal to scrap the age bar and term cap was floated at the party's central secretariat meeting held at the party headquarters Chyasal in Lalitpur on Thursday. UML Vice-chair Bishnu Paudel tabled the proposal to remove the provisions from the party statute.

"The discussion in today's secretariat meeting was focused on shaping the party's structure after the upcoming policy convention," a UML office bearer told the Post following the meeting.

The UML's eighth general convention, held in 2009 in But...