Thapa, Sharma elected as NC's general secretaries

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.