{"id":31307,"date":"2023-07-13T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:24:51","slug":"bnp-members-sue-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party","title":{"rendered":"BNP members sue party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Seven members of the Basotho National Party (BNP) have petitioned the High Court to stop the party from holding an Annual General Conference (AGC) next week. They contend the AGC if it goes ahead would be in breach of the party\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Disgruntled members mainly from Qacha\u2019s Nek, want the party and its National Executive Committee (NEC) and other 36 respondents to justify holding of the AGC on 12 July, 2019. The applicants also want the respondents to defend the legality of the AGC and why it should not be set aside.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants further want the respondents to justify why the party\u2019s circular No. 3 of 2019 should not be nullified and why nomination of candidates to constituency committees in Qacha\u2019s Nek, Qoaling, Qhalasi and Mafeteng cannot be set aside.<\/p>\n<p>In his founding affidavit, Odilon Cekwane of Qacha\u2019s Nek argues the applicants have a right in law to sue their party. Cekwane explains that on 28 December, 2018 the party\u2019s NEC arranged an AGC slated in for between 29-31 March, 2019 in Mafeteng district.<\/p>\n<p>But on 28 January, 2019, the NEC postponed the AGC indefinitely but did not announce new dates. On 7 March, 2019, Cekwane explains the NEC published a circular announcing an AGC for 12-14 July, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cekwane is however miffed that Qacha\u2019s Nek members were ambushed, as a meeting convened to prepare for leader Thesire \u2018Maseribane\u2019s visit was turned into an electoral college to appoint nominees to the AGC without prior warning. The applicants are represented by Advocate Letuka Molati.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Seven members of the Basotho National Party (BNP) have petitioned the High Court to stop the party from holding an Annual General Conference (AGC) next week. They contend the AGC if it goes ahead would be in breach of the party\u2019s constitution. Disgruntled members mainly from Qacha\u2019s Nek, want the party and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[233,246,245,442],"class_list":["post-31307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-party"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BNP members sue party - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seven members of the Basotho National Party (BNP) have petitioned the High Court to stop the party from holding an Annua ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BNP members sue party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seven members of the Basotho National Party (BNP) have petitioned the High Court to stop the party from holding an Annua ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-13T10:07:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-13T10:24:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/sm_1689227658.67643.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"BNP members sue party\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-13T10:07:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-13T10:24:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/07\/sm_1689227658.67643.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\",\"party\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/bnp-members-sue-party\",\"name\":\"BNP members sue party - 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