Nepali Congress (NC) general-secretary and parliamentarian Gagan Kumar Thapa has pitched for exploring the internal problems of the party. He stressed the need to identify the internal problems and place planned efforts to resolve them.
Nepali Congress (NC) general-secretary and parliamentarian Gagan Kumar Thapa has pitched for exploring the internal problems of the party. He stressed the need to identify the internal problems and place planned efforts to resolve them.
KATHMANDU: With 800 and a few votes remaining to be counted, Gagan Thapa has been elected as the general secretary of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC).
Leading in the vote count, which is being held at the Sanepa-based party head office, Thapa garnered 2,518 votes.
Of the 4,679 votes cast in Monday's election, as many as 3,867 votes have so far been counted.
Thapa’s nearest contender Bishwo Prakash Sharma has so far won 1,590 votes followed by Prakash Sharan Mahat’s 1,296.
Thapa is sure to win the race for the general secretarial position even as all the remaining votes are counted in favor of his opponents.
Here is the vote count tally
Votes counted: 3867
Gagan Thapa: 2518
Bishwo Prakash Sharma: 1590
Prakash Sharan Mahat: 1296
Pradeep Poudel: 1167
Minendra Rijal: 679
Rajaram Karki: 87
KATHMANDU: Gagan Kumar Thapa, a key leader of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC), filed his candidacy for the position of general secretary on Saturday.
Thapa, who had lost the electoral race for the same post in the 12th General Convention to Shashank Koirala, has been fielded as one of two candidates for the general secretarial position from the Shekhar Koirala panel. Minendra Rijal is another candidate for the position from the Koirala panel.
Karnali Province Chief Minister Jeevan Bahadur Shahi has announced his candidacy for the post of Nepali Congress joint-general secretary in the party’s upcoming 14th General Convention.
CM Shahi, who is also the NC central member, said that he would compete for the post in the quota allocated for backward regions.
As Shahi's personal secretary Raj Rokaya said, the CM would be filing his candidacy for the joint- general secretary post. Shahi, who represents Humla in the Karnali Province Assembly, also served as the Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation; and the Minister for Water Supplies in the federal government.
He said he was confident that the General Convention would trust him to be at the post of joint- general secretary recognizing his contribution in beginning the culture of the existing power alliance from Karnali though the party has just six seats in the Province Assembly.
