UPDATE: Vote-count for NC president begins

KATHMANDU: The vote count for the president of the Nepali Congress (NC) began at the Exhibition Road-based City Hall a while ago. 

The second round of voting concluded earlier at 9 PM. 

Of the total 4,743 delegates,  4,564 cast their votes, according to the party’s election committee. 

The election committee officials said that vote-count for the presidential position would be carried out within three hours. 

Re-polling was carried out as none of the five candidates secured more than 50 percent of the total votes cast in Monday’s voting. 

A total of six polling booths were arranged for Tuesday’s re-polls.

Top vote securers --- incumbent President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Dr Shekhar Koirala-- are pitted against each other. While Deuba secured 2,258, Koirala garnered  1,702 votes in the first round. A total of 4,679 votes were cast.

According to the party’s central election committee, Prakash Man Singh secured 371 votes followed by Bimalendra Nidhi who managed to win 250 votes. Kalyan Gurung garnered the lowest of 22 votes.