KATHMANDU: Election for the post of Vice-President has begun at the Legislature-Parliament building on Saturday. UCPN-Maoist Standing Committee member Nanda Kishor Pun and Nepali Congress leader Amiya Kumar Yadav are in the fray for the post. Senior CPN-UML leader Jhalanath Khanal proposed Pun, the former commander of the People’s Liberation Army, for the post of Vice-President and Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal Chief Whip Dilnath Giri and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Democratic leader Yogendra Chaudhary seconded Khanal’s proposal. NC Chief Whip Chinkaji Shrestha proposed Yadav and the party’s whip Ishwori Neupane seconded the proposal. The election result will be announced in the Parliament session at 5:00pm. Earlier on October 28, Bidya Devi Bhandari was elected the first female and second President of Federal Democratic Republic Nepal. Nanda Kishor Pun

• Real name Nanda Bahadur Pun
• Standing Committee member of Unified CPN-Maoist.
• Born to Ramsur and late Mansara on October 23, 1965 at Rangsi VDC of Rolpa district
• Chief commander of then CPN-Maoist People’s Liberation Army
• Joined Revolutionary Student wing
• Member of CPN-Mashal in 1990; full-time member of CPN-Unity Centre Mashal in 1992
• Became regional bureau member of CPN-Maoist in 1998
• Central member in 2001
• Politburo member in 2004
• Appointed chief of PLA in 2008
• Refused to go to India for treatment when both his kidneys failed in 2012, was successfully treated in Nepal
• Standing Committee member in 2013
• Taught at Lower Secondary School of Rangsi for nine years
• Never took any office of benefit even when his party led two governments

• Born to late Bindeswor Lal Yadav and late Sohagbati Yadav on July 4 1946 at Kajara of Jijhol VDC, Siraha district
• Graduate in Economics from India
• Involved in politics from age of 17
• Began his political journey after meeting B P Koirala
• Active in the people’s movement of 1990
• Became the first elected president of Nepali Congress Siraha District Committee in 1996.
• Member of the National Assembly for five years since 1999
• Played a very active role for democracy during the second people’s movement of 2006
• Was detained by police 19 times
• Forced to remain out of country for one month.
• Elected Member of Parliament from Proportional Representation system from Siraha in the second Constituent Assembly election