Khadka and Gurung elected Vice Presidents of NC

KATHMANDU, December 16: Leaders Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung have been elected Vice Presidents of the Nepali Congress (NC) in its 14th general convention. 

Khadka secured 2,121 votes and Gurung received 1,908 votes to emerge victorious for the post, according to the NC central election committee. There is a provision of two vice-presidents in the central working committee as per the statute of the party. 

Khadka was the general secretary and Gurung was the central member of the incumbent working committee of the party. 

Another candidate for Vice-President, Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar has been defeated by two votes. He obtained 1,906 votes. 

As informed by the committee, candidates for the same post, Dr Chandra Bhandari received 1,580 votes, Sujata Koirala 644, Mahesh Acharya 589 and Divyaswori Shah 132 votes. 

NC elected the Vice Presidents as per its statute for the first time. Earlier, the party President used to nominate a vice president in the party. 

The vote count for the vice president that started on Wednesday evening concluded at 1.00 am this morning. As many as 4,689 delegates cast their votes in the election held on Monday as part of the 14th general convention of the party.