NC, Maoist Center submit list of HoR PR candidates

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Nepali Congress has submitted the name list of the House of Representatives (HoR) members under proportional representation (PR) electoral system to the Election Commission (EC) on Monday.

A meeting of the party's central working committee held in Baluwatar on Monday finalized the names of 40 members. The party has picked six members from Dalit, 11 from indigenous, 12 from Khas-Aryan, six from Madheshi, three from Tharu and two from Muslim communities.

The EC had set Monday as the deadline for parties to submit the names of the members recommended for HoR under PR electoral system.

Similarly, the Maoist submitted a list of 17 candidates under the PR system. The candidates included six candidates of Khas/Aryan origin, six from indigenous communities including one from Tharu, two from Dalits, two from Madhesi and one from Muslim minority groups.

Full list of NC candidates under PR system

Khas-Aryan

1.   Bal Krishna Khand

2.   Dilendra Prasad Badu

3.   Kishore Singh Rathore (Disable)

4.   Satya Narayan Khanal

5.   Surya Bahadur KC

6.   Mohan Pandey

7.   Sujata Koirala

8.   Pushpa Bhusal

9.   Dila Sangraula

10.   Meena Pandey

11.   Uma Regmi

12.   Deepsikha Sharma

Indigenous Communities

1.   Bahadur Singh Lama

2.   Karma Ghale

3.   Umesh Shrestha

4.   Lal Kaji Gurung

5.   Jip Tsering Lama

6.   Divya Mani Rajbhandari

7.   Gyan Kumari Chhantyal

8.   Pramila Rai

9.   Mahendra Kumari Limbu

10.   Heera Gurung

11.   Meena Subba

Madhesi

1.   Binod Chaudhary

2.   Smriti Narayan Chaudhary

3.   Nagendra Kumar Raya

4.   Sita Devi Yadav

5.   Chitra Lekha Yadav

6.   Meenakshi Jha

Tharu

1.   Padma Narayan Chaudhary

2.   Parvati DC Chaudhary

3.   Namita Kumari Chaudhary

Muslim

1. Atahar Kamaal Musalman

2. Sarvat Aara Khan

Dalit

1.   Man Bahadur Bishwakarma

2.   Meen Bishwakarma

3.   Prakash Rasaili

4.   Sujata Pariyar

5.   Laxmi Pariyar

6.   Bimala Nepali

Full list of Maoist PR candidates

Khas/Aryan

1.   Hit Raj Pandey

2.   Rekha Sharma

3.   Purna Kumari Subedi

4.   Dharma Sheela Chapagain

5.   Satya Pahadi

6.   Sita Pokharel

Indigenous Communities