Nepali Congress Leader Sitaula Denies Claims of Skipping Home District Vote in Federal Elections

Kathmandu. Nepali Congress leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula has refuted claims that he and other incumbent establishment leaders did not travel to their home districts to cast their votes in the House of Representatives elections held on Falgun 21.

On Wednesday, at the party's parliamentary office in Singha Durbar, when journalists asked him, "There are reports that you all did not go to your home districts to vote in the House of Representatives elections due to internal party disputes; is that true?" Sitaula refuted the question. ‘There is no truth to the reports circulating that we did not go to vote. We went to cast our votes in our respective places. We also stated where we were supposed to go to vote,’ Sitaula told journalists, ‘Unnecessary rumors are being spread right now.’

He expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would soon resolve the internal dispute within the party. Sitaula stated that the party would be 'revived' once the internal dispute is settled. ‘The case regarding the party's internal dispute is pending in the Supreme Court. After the court makes a decision, we will move forward unitedly. The party will revive,’ Sitaula said. 

Sitaula, the leader of the Congress National Assembly parliamentary party, stated that he took the results of the House of Representatives elections as unexpected and informed that the party would decide whether to support or oppose the Rastriya Swatantra Party, which secured a comfortable majority, based on their performance.