Khadka, Gurung elected NC vice-presidents

Prashanna Pokharel

Kathmandu, Dec 16

Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhan Raj Gurung have been elected Nepali Congress (NC) vice-presidents.

The factions of Sher Bahadur Deuba and Shekhar Koirala have split the posts of vice-presidents with Khadka from Deuba faction securing the highest number of votes at 2,121. There was a very close competition for the second position between Gurung from the Koirala team and Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar from the Deuba faction and the lead exchanged hands multiple times. But Gurung (1,908) edged out Gachchhadar by just two votes to emerge victorious.

Chandra Bhandari (1,580) from the Koirala team came fourth followed by Sujata Koirala (644) from the team of Prakash Man Singh, Mahesh Acharya (589), and Divyeshwori Shah (132) from the team of Bimalendra Nidhi.
Deuba was elected president early Wednesday morning after runoff while votes for general secretaries will be counted later on Thursday.

Published Date: 2021-12-16 00:18:00

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