KATHMANDU: Newly elected office bearers of the Nepali Congress from the party’s Special General Convention are set to formally assume office on Friday.

According to the secretariat of party President Gagan Kumar Thapa, the oath-taking and assumption ceremony will be held at 1:00 pm at the party’s central office in Sanepa.

A meeting of the Central Working Committee (CWC) will take place immediately after the ceremony, the secretariat said.

In a statement, Thapa’s secretariat said all newly elected office bearers and members of the Central Working Committee, including President Thapa himself, would take office at the scheduled time.

It added that journalists have been invited to attend, as the Central Committee meeting will follow soon after the ceremony.