Chairpersons of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal went to the Election Commission (EC) on January 11 and urged the poll panel to stop preparation for mid-term polls, reports The Himalayan Times. NCP leader Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, who accompanied Dahal and Nepal to the EC, said the EC was told that dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) was sub judice and the poll panel should stop its ‘meaningless’ preparation for the mid-term polls. NCP Standing Committee member Lilamani Pokharel said his party leaders also asked the EC why it continued to recognize Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who had already been removed by his party from the post of co-chair of NCP. Dahal and Nepal also wondered why the EC entertained the document submitted by Oli notifying it that his faction had amended the party statute and added new members to the Central Committee. “Our party statute stipulates that any amendment can be made only by the majority members of the Central Committee. We have the majority. How can Oli, who is in minority, amend the party statute?” Lilamani Pokharel wondered.