Nepal Community Party (NCP) has taken action against party General Secretary Netra Bikram Chand.

A special national assembly that started in Chitwan from Wednesday decided to remove General Secretary Chand and spokesperson Khadga Bahadur Bishwokarma from the party.

An assembly of Dharmendra Bastola and party secretariat member Hemanta Prakash Oli faction decided to remove Chand from the post of party General Secretary.

A meeting of the majority of the central members has appointed Bastola as the coordinator.

Earlier, Chand had expelled Bastola and Oli from the party for carrying out activities against the party.

Bastola and Oli are in favour of boycotting the local level elections while Chand is in favour of supporting independent and nationalist candidates.