President Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected as the Parliamentary Party (PP) leader of the Nepali Congress (NC).
According to a source at the Election Committee of the NC PP Office, Deuba garnered 64 votes while his contender General Secretary Gagan Thapa secured 25 votes. Deuba defeated Thapa with a margin of 39 votes.
All the NC lawmakers elected to the House of Representatives had turned up to cast their votes in the elections. There are 89 lawmakers from the NC.
Newly elected Parliamentary Party (PP) leader and President of the Nepali Congress (NC) Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that he will steer the party in unison.
Talking to media persons briefly after being elected as the PP leader, Deuba said, “I will lead the party in unison by taking all the leaders into confidence.”
With this win, Deuba is set to become the Prime Minister for the sixth time. He had become Prime Minister on July 12, 2021 for the fifth time
The voting for the post of the NC parliamentary party leader was held this morning. Party's senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel was the proposer of Deuba's candidacy while party vice-president Purna Bahadur Khadka was the backer.
Similarly, leader Dr. Shekhar Koirala was the proposer of general secretary Thapa's candidacy while Vice-president Dhanaraj Gurung, general secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma and central member Pradip Poudel seconded the proposal.
The party's House of Representatives members are the voters in this election. The Nepali Congress won 89 seats in the House of Representatives, including 57 through the first-past-the-post and 32 towards the proportional representation system in the HoR elections held on November 20.
