The party, which had Tuesday nominated KC from Kathmandu constituency number 1, has replaced him by Bidya Neupane after a group of the party’s local cadres strongly protested against the actor’s nomination. [break]
“The party has decided to nominate Neupane in place of KC,” Surya Thapa, secretary of the party’s publicity department told Republica.
However, the cadres from Kathmandu-1 gathered at the party head office at Balkhu have been insisting to nominate Bidur Mainali as candidate for the constituency.
Similarly, the party nominated Ranju Napit as UML candidate for Bhaktapur-1 and Basudev Ram Chaudhary for Rautahat-5. The party had kept these two seats vacant Tuesday. The party is yet to nominate a candidate for Rautahat-6.
Also, top UML leaders decided to change the party candidate for Morang-5. It had earlier nominated Pujan Niraula. “Today [Wednesday] the leaders have decided to field a Madhes-based leader Ram Lal Sah in place of Niraula,” said Thapa.
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