The Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress scheduled to start from today has been postponed.

Party General Secretary Gagan Thapa said that the office bearers and the Central Committee meeting called for today has been postponed following the death of wife of Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Dahal’s wife Sita Dahal passed away on Wednesday. She was 69.

She breathed her last during the course of treatment at the Norvic Hospital at 8: 33 am today, the hospital said.

Dahal’s last rites will be performed at Pashupati Aryaghat at 2 pm today, PM Dahal’s Secretariat said.

Her body will be kept at the party central office Parisdanda, Koteshwar from 11 am to 1 pm to pay the final tributes, the Secretariat said.

Preparations are underway to call the meeting for July 18, the party said.  But the official announcement is yet to be made.

The meeting was called at the party central office in Sanepa from today after a year to discuss the issue of the party's policy general convention.

Prior to the Central Committee meeting, party President Sher Bahadur Deuba had called an office bearers and former office bearers’ meeting at his residence in Dhumbarahi at 9 am today.