KATHMANDU, March 12: The Election Commission (EC) of Nepal has released the final list of candidates who will be contesting in the upcoming vice presidential election. The election will be held on March 24, 2023, and the elected vice president will serve as the country's second-highest-ranking official.
KATHMANDU: CPN-UML has decided to nominate make Ashta Laxmi Shakya as the vice-presidential candidate. Party leader Pradip Gyawali said that a meeting of the party’s secretariat held on Saturday morning decided to make Shakya the candidate for the country’s vice president. Shakya, who is also the former chief minister of Bagmati state, is the Vice-Chair […]
The UML’s effort to recommend lawmaker Rekha Sharma for the post of vice-president has been halted for the time being.
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KATHMANDU, Dec. 28: CPN Maoist Center Deputy Secretary General Haribol Gajurel has rejected the Vice President post. After the party chairman and Prime Minister Prachanda offered Gajurel the position of vice president, he refused the post.
Leaders like Subas Nemwang, Ashtalakshmi Shakya, Amrit Bohra, and others from UM
KATHMANDU, September 10: Fatema Z Sumar, vice president of the Department of Compact Operations at the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) called on Puspha Kamal Dahal, Chairman of CPN (Maoist Center) on Friday morning.
Vice President Sumar is expected to convince and urge Dahal to ratify the MCC Compact from parliament.
Sumar arrived in Nepal on Thursday as the MCC Compact awaits ratification from parliament. She held meetings with UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal shortly after her arrival.
Sumar is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Friday itself.
KATHMANDU: Police have arrested 15 protesters for showing the black flag to Fatema Z Sumar, vice president of the Department of Compact Operations at the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), from Koteshwor, Kathmandu.
Fatima and her team were returning from Balkot, Bhaktapur after calling on UML Chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at the latter’s private residence.
The protesters, most of them affiliated with the Nepal Communist Party, were held as they attempted to display the black flag as a symbolic protest against the MCC Compact.
