Kathmandu, March 27 (IANS) Nepal’s top political leaders congratulated newly-elected Prime Minister Balendra Shah, wishing him success in his tenure as the executive head of the Himalayan country. Former Prime Minister Sushila Karki wished him success in fulfilling the mandate given by the people to him and his party.In a Facebook post, Karki, who handed over the premiership to Balen, said she was happy to see a 35-year-old Prime Minister as her successor.Shah, who was considered a frontrunner t…
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Kathmandu, March 19 (IANS) Gagan Thapa, who was elected president of the Nepali Congress through a controversially-held special general convention in January, has resigned from his post following the party’s electoral setback in the recently held parliamentary elections. Thapa himself suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the Sarlahi-4 constituency in Madhesh Province, as his party came a distant second, with a lar…
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepal’s only billionaire, Binod Chaudhary, a candidate from the Nepali Congress, suffered a humiliating defeat in the country’s parliamentary elections at the hands of Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Bikram Khanal in the Nawalparasi West-1 constituency.Khanal secured 45,241 votes to win the election, defeating Chaudhary, who received 9,502 votes, according to the Election Commission of Nepal. Chaudhary joins a long list of candidates from traditional political part…
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepali Congress President Gagan Thapa suffered a bitter defeat at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party in this year’s parliamentary elections.The party’s prime ministerial candidate, Thapa, secured 22,831 votes in the polls held in Sarlahi-4 in Madhesh Province, against 35,688 votes polled by Singh, adding to the long list of heavyweight leaders to suffer a similar fate.Elected as president of the party just in January this yea…
Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Most of the top leaders of traditional political parties are facing a tough contest in the parliamentary elections, with candidates from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) taking significant leads in two-thirds of the seats under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system. In Nepal’s 275-member House of Representatives, 165 members are elected through the FPTP system, while 110 seats are filled through the proportional representation system. According to the latest data fr…
Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Former Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has been elected from Rukum East-1 to the House of Representatives, becoming one of the few top leaders from traditional political parties to secure a win in the elections to the House of Representatives held on Thursday. He secured 10,240 votes to win the election. His closest competitor, Lilamani Gautam of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), secured 3,462 votes, according to th…
Kathmandu, March 5 (IANS) Around 24 per cent of voters had cast their ballots by 1 pm on Thursday in Nepal’s parliamentary elections, with polling underway peacefully across the country, the country’s election body said. More than 4.45 million voters had exercised their voting rights by 1 pm on Thursday since voting began at 7 am, accounting for 24 per cent of the total registered voters, the Election Commission said in its latest update.More than 18.90 million people are eligible to vote in…
Kathmandu, March 4 (IANS) The Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), and the erstwhile CPN (Maoist Centre) have ruled the country turn by turn over the last two decades. Their respective leaders — Sher Bahadur Deuba, KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal — have been at the helm of power for the last decade or so.A growing impression among the Nepali public that the country is lagging because of these leaders and that corruption is rife trig…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) Nepal, where parliamentary election is scheduled for March 5, witnessed the beginning of formal campaign activities on February 16 that included public meetings, rallies, use of loudspeakers, among other related exercises, which will end three days before the date of the poll. This election can be described as among the most consequential elections since the abolition of the monarchy in the country in 2008. It comes in the wake of the youth-led Gen Z anti-corruption prot…
Kathmandu, Feb 3 (IANS) A Nepali Congress leader has urged the party leadership to incorporate a commitment to establish a Vedic Sanatan Hindu state and restore a constitutional monarchy in the party’s election manifesto for the upcoming House of Representatives election scheduled for March 5. As political parties, including the Nepali Congress, rush to unveil their manifestos for the Parliamentary elections, Lokesh Dhakal, a general committee member of the party, has formally urged the newly el…