The Nepali Congress has announced new dates for its general convention and named an election committee to ensure fair elections when it meets to elect a new president early next year. The row between the two septuagenarian leaders, Girija Prasad Koirala and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai was patched up at a meeting in Baluwatar last week (right). Relations had got worse after Koirala sacked a senior minister from his cabinet who was reportedly conspiring to mutiny. Jumping at the opportunity to get even with Girija who had engineered his ouster in March, Bhattarai announced five demands as conditions for a truce. Koirala agreed to three but refused to give in to the other two. The new date for the party's 10th Convention originally scheduled for November is 19-22 January.