Vote count for 5 more NC joint general secretaries begins - Khabarhub
KATHMANDU: The vote count for the remaining five joint general secretaries of the Nepali Congress under 14th General Convention has started at the central
KATHMANDU, Nov 8; The ruling party Nepali Congress’ general secretaries Bishwa Prakash Sharma and Gagan Kumar Thapa are going on a site visit to the earthquake-affected areas on Wednesday.
KATHMANDU, Nov 8; The ruling party Nepali Congress’ general secretaries Bishwa Prakash Sharma and Gagan Kumar Thapa are going on a site visit to the earthquake-affected areas on Wednesday.
KATHMANDU: Vote-counting for the central executive committee of the grand old Nepali Congress (NC) is still underway at the Sanepa, Lalitpur-based party head office.
However, a 13-member office bearers’ team has got the final shape as vote-count for joint general secretaries came to an end on Friday afternoon.
Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected for the second straight term as the party president. He reclaimed his victory in a run-off defeating Dr Shekhar Kolirala.
Deuba, the five-time prime minister and also a serving executive head of the state, holds a comfortable majority in the team of 13 office bearer positions.
Except for a vice-president (Dhanraj Gurung), two general secretaries (Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma) and two joint general secretaries (Jivan Pariyar and Badri Pandey), all other office bearers belong to his panel. Though Bishwa Prakash Sharma, one of the two general secretaries, was considered close to the Deuba camp, was fielded by the Prakash Man Singh panel.
Other office bearers include Purna Bahadur Khadka (vice-president), Kishor Singh Rathor, Malalaxmi Upadhyay, Farmullah Mansoor, Umakanta Chaudhary, Mahendra Yadav and Bhishmaraj Angdembe (joint general secretaries).
The team, except for Deuba and Khadka, has all new members. While Deuba completed his first tenure as the party tenure (2016-2021), Khadka was one of two general secretaries in the Deuba-led team.
Thapa contested for the same position in the 2016 general convention, however, lost to Dr Shahshank Koirala.
Sharma has been serving as party spokesperson since 2018, however, has not held any executive position except for the central committee member.
KATHMANDU: Gagan Thapa and Bishwo Prakash Sharma have been elected the general secretaries of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC).
According to the vote-count result on Thursday afternoon, Thapa secured 2,823 and Sharma got 1,824 out of 4,290 votes tallied.
The voting for the NC executive committee was held on Monday.
Here is the vote count tally
Votes counted: 4390
Gagan Thapa: 2823
Bishwo Prakash Sharma: 1824
Prakash Sharan Mahat: 1455
Pradeep Poudel: 1303
Minendra Rijal: 753
Rajaram Karki: 100
Thapa and Rijal were fielded as general secretary candidates by the Shekhar Koirala panel. Koirala, however, lost the presidential election to Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Mahat and Poudel are the candidates from the Deuba panel, Sharma from the Prakash Man Singh camp and Karki from the Bimalendra Nidhi faction.
Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma--popular new-generation leaders in the grand old Nepali Congress party--have won the key positions of general secretary of the party.
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