Four candidates for ward chair

KHOTANG: Four candidates registered their candidacy for the post of ward  chairman of Sakela Rural Municipality in Khotang on Wednesday. The by-election was scheduled to be held for the vacant post after the death  of ward Chairperson Mani Kumar Rai on April 22.

Shiva Kala Rai of Nepal  Communist Party (NCP), Sukra Bahadur Tamang of Nepali Congress, Ramesh  Rai of Socialist Party-Nepal and Indra Bahadur Khadka of Rastriya Prajatantra Party have registered their candidacies at the chief election officer’s office in Manebhanjyang. Chief Election Officer Matrika Prasad Acharya said that 1,303 voters would cast their votes for the by-election. —  HN