As the 11th general convention of the CPN-UML draws closer, the election fervor has intensified.
Party leaders have also started announcing their candidacies for different positions.
Sher Bahadur Tamang, a standing committee member of the UML, has staked claim to the post of deputy general secretary. He is currently close to Chairman KP Sharma Oli.
Initially seen as outside the establishment faction, he openly joined the Oli camp after the 10th general convention. "I have staked claim to the deputy general secretary position, and I am making the same request to the voters," he told Setopati.
Tamang has been fully active in the UML since 1990.
When the UML split in 1997, he joined the CPN (Marxist-Leninist). He became a candidate from Sindhupalchowk-3 in the 1999 elections but was defeated.
After the unification with CPN-UML in 2001, he joined the then Democratic National Youth Federation. Although he contested the 2008 elections from Sindhupalchowk-3, he was defeated again. However, he was elected in the second Constituent Assembly election in 2013.
Tamang was elected from Sindhupalchowk-2 in the 2017 election, but lost to Mohan Bahadur Basnet of the Nepali Congress in the 2022 election.
In 2017, he became the law minister during the second prime ministerial term of KP Sharma Oli.
Tamang joined the UML central committee starting from the 8th national general convention in 2008. He was a central committee member in the 9th general convention. Tamang, who briefly served as the central office secretary, was elected to the standing committee after the 10th general convention.
"Currently, I am staking claim to the deputy general secretary position as per the wishes of the delegates," he said.
