Kailali Congress Convention: Voting for President Tomorrow, Koirala Group Decisive

Dhangadhi: Voting is being held on Thursday to elect a new president of Nepali Congress Kailali. In the first phase of the election, 51 percent of the candidates did not garner the votes expected. In the first round, Prakash Bam, Narayan Dutta Bhatt, and Ram Bahadur Kalel contested the election on Sunday.

According to the tally on Monday, Bam received 1,169 votes, Bhatta 1,072, and Kalel 197 votes. However, as no one got 51 percent of the votes, the second phase of voting will start on Thursday. Now there will be competition between Bam and Bhatta.

Both Bam and Bhatt are considered close to the establishment. Kalel is close to Dr. Shekhar Koirala. The Congress establishment had declared Bhatta as the official candidate of its panel.

After Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba said that Bhatta was the official candidate of the establishment, only five central members representing the Far-West in the Central Committee had sided with him.

Only former Kailali president Narnarayan (Manu) Shah was seen in favor of the bomb. In Kailali Congress, there were 2,586 voters out of which 2,576 votes were cast. Out of the dropped votes, 48 ​​were invalid. Although the establishment party is confident that the official candidate Bhatta will get more than 51 percent votes in the first round, the establishment party is under pressure after he came in second place.

Central members who are under pressure to defeat Bhatt are trying to do so. The Koirala faction is now seen as decisive for the new leadership of the Nepali Congress in Kailali. After no one got 51 percent of the votes in the first round, the group will be decisive in the second round.

Ram Bahadur Kalel, who got 197 votes from that group, is sure to win whoever he supports. The Koirala faction, on the other hand, is in talks with both sides to help those who are given respectable positions.