KATHMANDU, April 24: The CPN-UML has finalized the candidates for the posts of mayor and deputy mayor of various metropolises and sub-metropolis. A meeting of the UML Central Secretariat held at the residence of party Chairman KP Sharma Oli in Balkot on Saturday finalized the names of candidates for six metropolitan cities and 11 sub-metropolitan cities, said UML Deputy General Secretary and Chief of Publicity Department Prithvi Subba Gurung.
Accordingly, Keshav Sthapit has been chosen as the party’s candidate for the post of mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) while Sunita Dangol will be the deputy mayor candidate. Likewise, Harikrishna Byanjankar has been nominated as the UML candidate for the post of mayor in Lalitpur, Manjali Shakya Bajracharya as the candidate for deputy mayor, Deepak Poudel as the candidate of mayor and Manju Devi Gurung as deputy mayor of Pokhara, Bijay Subedi as the mayoral candidate for Bharatpur and Bijay Sarawagi as the mayoral candidate for Birgunj.
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The UML candidates for the sub-metropolitan cities have been decided in other places except Janakpur and Jitpur Simara. Accordingly, Rana Bahadur Chand will stand for the post of mayor and Chandrakala Rana Tharu for the post of deputy mayor of Dhangadhi, Pashupati Dayal Mishra is the party’s mayoral candidate and Shantidevi Dhakal the deputy mayor candidate for Nepalgunj, Tikaram Khadka as the mayoral candidate and Sani Chaudhary as the deputy mayoral candidate for Tulsipur.
Furthermore, Narulal Chaudhary has been nominated to contest for the post of mayor and Mankumari DC as the deputy mayor of Ghorahi.
Chief of the Publicity Department, Gurung said that some of the candidates have not been finalized considering the possibility of alliance with other political parties.
