Paudel, Rana, Sangraula elected Congress general secretaries; Bhandari, Acharya, Chaudhary deputy presidents

Pradip Paudel, Udaya Shamsher Rana and Dr Dila Sangraula Pant have been elected general secretaries of the Nepali Congress at its 15th general convention. In the vote count for the two open general secretary seats, Paudel received the most votes with 4,194.

Dr Chandrakanta Bhandari and Madhu Acharya have been elected deputy presidents from the open quota, while Binod Kumar Chaudhary has been elected from the inclusive quota. Earlier, when 6,000 votes were counted, Dr Bhandari had received 3,106 votes and Acharya 1,920 votes for the open deputy president seats. At that time, Govinda Bhattarai had received 1,566 votes.

Meanwhile, counting for the post of joint general secretary is underway. In the count of 584 votes for the two open joint general secretary seats, Ramhari Khatiwada is leading with 289 votes. Dilliram Subedi and Ajay Babu are following him.

Counting for other posts, including central members, under the general convention is also continuing.