India, Jan. 16 -- The newly formed Central Working Committee of the Nepali Congress on Thursday decided at its first meeting to move forward through overall reforms in the party organisation ahead of the March 5 general elections. The oldest and the largest party of the country, the Nepali Congress on Wednesday formally split as negotiations between the two factions, one led by general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwo Prakash Sharma, and the other by party president Sher Bahadur Deuba, failed to reach an agreement over party reforms.

The Nepali Congress' newly formed Central Working Committee (CWC) first meeting was chaired by 49-year-old Thapa, who was unanimously elected as the president of the party at a Special General Convention h...