Nepali Congress finalizes candidates

KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Nepali Congress has finalized names of candidates  from Province 1,2 and 3 for the National Assembly election. The election is slated for February 7. Earlier, the country’s oldest party had confirmed names of candidate from Province 4, 5, 6 and 7. 

Registration of nomination papers of candidates contesting the National Assembly election is ongoing today at respective provinces. Since 10 AM until 4 PM. 

Candidates names of NA election are as follow :

Province 1

Ramesh Jung Raimajhi (open)

Sarita Parsai (Women)

Province 2

Jitendranarayan Dev (Open)

Mukta Kumari Yadav (Women) 

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Province 3

Radhe Shyam Adhikari (Open)

Dhana Khatiwada (Women)

Province 4

1 Surendra Raj Pandey (Other Group)

2 Brinda Rana Magar (Women)

3 Jeet Bahadur Nepali (Dalit)

4 Prakash Pant (Disable)

Province 5

1 Durga Prasad Upadhyaya (Others)

2 Anita Devkota (Women)

3 Maiku Lal Balmiki (Dalit)

4 Loot Bahadur Khatri (Disable)

Province 6

1 Bishnu Bahadur Shahi (Open)

2 Surya Devi Malla (Women)

3 Sita Ram BK (Dalit)

4 Gopal Prasad Sharma (Disable)

Province 7

1 Badri Pandey

2 Tara Devi Bhatta (Women)

3 Sheri Ram Parki (Dalit)

4 Chhatra Raj Joshi (Disable)