On 16 January, Sher Bahadur Deuba attended the wedding reception of Inspector Deep Sumsher, son of IGP Pradeep Sumsher JBR. He was overheard saying: "For the new Congress leadership I have taken into account and supported the candidature on the basis of caste, region, sex, plains-based and hill-based, Bahun, Chettri, Newar, Rai, and Limbu. Let's see what Koirala will do? In his list, there are already nine Koiralas-Girija, Nona, Sushil, Prakash, Bipin, Ashok, Sujata, Lila and Narayan. There are three Acharyas-Sailaja, Mahesh and Nar Hari. For the remaining nine he will nominate people close to him-Sukhraj Sharma, Baldev Majghaya, Laxman Ghimire, Gopal Pahadi, Chakra Bastola, Shanker Pandey, Dil Bahadur Gharti, Ram Chandra Poudel, and Govind Raj Joshi. Where is the place for other people then?"