KATHMANDU – The revote for the Nepali Congress President under the party’s 14th General Convention has begun. None of five candidates for the party President post securing the mandatory 51 percent of the votes has prompted the re-election from 3:30 pm. The voting will continue till 7:30 pm today, according to NC Central Election Committee coordinator Gopal Krishna Ghimire.
In the first round of the voting held on Monday, 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 voters out of 4,743 took part in the voting and 76 ballots were invalid. 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 election, a voting shall be conducted again among the two competitors with highest votes. Meanwhile, Deuba has already attended the second round of voting from the local Rastriya Sabha Griha (City Hall).
