Nepali Congress 15th General Convention: Preliminary list of candidates made public

KATHMANDU: The preliminary list of candidates for various posts, including office-bearer positions, in the 15th General Convention of the Nepali Congress has been made public.

The Nepali Congress Central Election Committee released the first list of candidates. The party will have 24 office bearers, comprising one president, four vice presidents including one senior vice president, three general secretaries, 15 joint general secretaries and one treasurer.

Under the party statute, the president can nominate four joint general secretaries and one treasurer. Therefore, 19 office bearers will be elected. According to the preliminary list, 79 candidates have filed nominations for the 19 elected office-bearer positions.

Three candidates have filed nominations for party president: incumbent President Gagan Thapa, former Joint General Secretary Kishore Singh Rathore and former regional president Shyam Krishna Khadgi.

For senior vice president, Bishwa Prakash Sharma is the only candidate on the preliminary list.

Ten candidates have filed nominations for the two open vice president positions: Govinda Bhattarai, Dr Chandrakant Bhandari, Prof. Dr Chandramohan Yadav, Deepak Giri, Devraj Chalise, Dhanraj Gurung, Madhu Acharya, Dr Minendra Prasad Rijal, Surendraraj Pandey and another candidate listed by the election committee.