KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress on Friday elected 22 members of its Parliamentary Party working committee.

Of them, 18 are learned to be loyal to party President Sher Bahadur Deuba while four belong to the rival faction led by Ram Chandra Paudel.

The election was held in Singh Durbar at 9 am.

As many as 42 lawmakers had filed candidacy for 22 positions of the Nepali Congress PP working committee membership yesterday.

Rajeev Bikram Shah was unanimously elected as he was the only contender for the one member reserved position for lawmakers from the backward region.

According to the new party statute, the party lawmakers had to choose one member from each of the seven provinces and two Madhesi women, one Madhesi man, one Dalit woman, one Dalit man, two Janajati women, two Janajati men, two Khas-Arya women, one Khas-Arya man, one member from the backward region and one each from Tharu and Muslim communities.

Category

Elected candidates

Votes

Madhes women

Pramila Devi Das

112

Rashmi Thakur

120

Madhes man

Ram Ayodhya Prasad Yadav

123

Dalit woman

Asha BK

124

Dalit man

Narbhan Kami

105

Indigenous women

Gyan Kumari Chhantyal

109

Asha Gurung

108

Indigenous men

Tirtha Lama

111

Aang Tawa Sherpa

104

Khas Arya women

Gita Wagle

121

Madhu Shahi Thakuri

119

Khas Arya man

Rajan KC

118

Tharu

Bhotani Devi Khawas

107

Muslim

Abdul Rajjak

139

Province 1

Deepak Khadka

103

Province 2

Prem Kishor Prasad Sah Teli

109

Province 3

Dhyan Govinda Ranjit

117

Province 4

Ram Chandra Pokharel

109

Province 5

Bikram Khanal

111

Province 6

Tapta Bahadur Bista

120

Province 7

Bharat Bahadur Khadka

110