Gurung elected in engineers' body

KATHMANDU, Sept 20: Nepal Engineers´ Association´s (NEA) election elected Mahendra Bahadur Gurung of the progressive panel as the chairman of the association.



He secured 2,622 votes.



According to the association, Gurung´s contender Hareram Shrestha of democratic panel got 2,469 votes.



Similarly, Dilip Kumar Jha, Anuradha Sharma Adhikari, Suraj Lamichhane and Shailita Manandhar Joshi were the vice-chairman, general secretary, deputy general secretary and treasurer, respectively.



Bheshraj thapa, Shaligram Parajuli, Binod Bhattarai, Birodh Rijal, Chudaraj Dhakal, Ishwor Chandra Baniya and Anju Udas, Susan Baidhya, Bikash Pokhrel and Rohini Paudel have been elected as the members of the association.



There were 8,060 members to vote in the election that was held on September 16.

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