KATHMANDU: Shekhar Koirala has been leading in vote counting of the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee members in the open category as 603 votes were counted.

Prakash Man Singh and Khum Bahadur Khadka are closely following him.

Total 90 candidates are vying for the 25 positions.

Meanwhile, the Election Committee is also counting votes for CWC members under the women reservation, Dalit open, Dalit women, Madhesi open and Madhesi women categories.

Jeevan Pariya and Laxmi are leading in the Dalit open and the Dalit women categories respectively till 800 votes were counted in both categories.

Ajaya Kumar Chaurasiya and Kiran Yadav are leading in the Madhesi open and the Madhesi women categories respectively till 696 votes were counted in both categories.

So far, the party has only concluded counting under the Muslim reservation category. Farmullah Mansoor was elected a CWC member under this category.

Votes for the CWC members under the provincial representation category would be counted on Saturday, according to the party's Election Committee.

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Candidates

Votes till 603 counted

1.

Shekhar Koirala

354

2.

Khum Bahadur Khadka

353

3.

Prakash Man Singh

353

4.

Pradeep Paudel

347

5.

Bimalendra Nidhi

339

6.

Purna Bahadur Khadka

335

7.

Bal Krishna Khand

333

8.

Ramesh Lekhak

330

9.

Mahesh Acharya

324

10.

Pradeep Giri

321

11.

Dhan Raj Gurung

319

12.

Kul Bahadur Gurung

315

13.

Ram Sharan Mahat

312

14.

Bal Bahadur KC

308

15.

Bishwa Prakash Sharma

307

16.

Sujata Koirala

307

17.

Prakash Sharan Mahat

295

18.

Minendra Rijal

294

19.

Shankar Bhandari

293

20.

Chandra Bhandari

289

21.

Narayan Khadka

288

22.

Gopal Man Shrestha

285

23.

Badri Pandey

283

24.

NP Saud

276

25.

Gyanendra Bahadur Karki

266

26.

Jip Chhiring Lama

246

27.

Padma Narayan Chaudhary

244

28.

Udaya Shamsher Rana

242

29.

Dina Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya

240

30.

Ashok Koirala

226