Run-off for NC President from 3:30PM

KATHMANDU: The run-off for electing Nepali Congress President under the party 14th General Convention has been scheduled from 3:30 pm to 7: 30 pm Tuesday. 

The voting will be held at the City Hall and the Bhrikuti Mandap. 

The NC central election committee has planned the second round of voting as no candidate was able to secure more than 50 percent of the total votes in the first round of voting held Monday to win the election as per the party’s statute.

According to committee coordinator Gopal Krishna Ghimire, they are preparing to conduct the re-election at the given time.  

Deuba finished the race with 2,258 votes while his nearest competitor Dr Shekhar Koirala obtained 1,702 votes. Likewise, Prakash Man Singh got 371 votes followed by 250 by Bimalendra Nidhi and 22 votes by Kalyan Gurung. 

A total of five candidates were in the fray for the party president post. 

A total of 4,679 delegates out of 4,743 took part in the voting whereas 76 ballots were invalidated.

As per the party statute, a candidate must secure over 50 percent of the total cast votes to win the party president post and in the absence of any candidate meeting the requirement in the first round of the election, voting shall be conducted again among the two competitors with highest votes.