Kathmandu, March 13

Vote counting of Nepali Congress’s elected positions is likely to conclude tomorrow, after seven days. Voting were held on March 6.

The party’s election committee is preparing to provide certificates of election to all elected members on Tuesday amid a function, according to secretary of the party headquarters Prakash Sharma.

As of today’s vote count reports, newly elected party president Sher Bahadur Deuba-led panel is securing a comfortable majority in the CWC.

The Deuba panel is leading in the open category of 25 Central Working Committee members and there is neck-to-neck competition in 14 quotas reserved for seven provinces between the Deuba panel and the panel led by Ramchandra Paudel.

As only around 400 votes are to be counted, today’s update has given a clear sign about who will emerge victorious. As some influential members are lagging behind in terms of the votes they garnered, it is almost certain that they will lose the polls.

Popular and influential candidates in lower positions are: Udaya Shumsher Rana, Jip Tshring Lama, Dina Maha Laxmi Upadhaya, Manmohan Bhattarai, Govinda Raj Joshi, Taranath Ranabhat, Chiranjibi Wagle, Ram Krishna Tamrakar, Pushkar Nath Ojha, Surya Man Gurung, Binay Dhoj Chand, Laxman Prasad Ghimire and Ram Hari Khatiwada.

Almost all of them belong to the Deuba camp.

As of now, 13 CWC members have already been declared elected as CWC members from the Deuba side while nine are from Paudel’s camp.

As there are only around 400 votes to be counted under the category and there is significant difference between those leading candidates and those below the 25th position, there is high chance that the leading 25 will likely be elected CWC members.

Among the 25, 14 are from Deuba’s panel and 11 belong to the Paudel panel. Vote update of leading 28 candidates under the 25-member open category, according to secretary Sharma, is as follows after 2,750 ballots were counted till today:

Shekhar Koirala, 1,615; Khum Bahadur Khadka, 1,608; Prakash Man Singh, 1,575; KB Gurung, 1,547; Pradip Paudel, 1,506; Pradip Giri, 1,502; Dhana Raj Gurung, 1,498; Bal Krishna Khand, 1,480; Ramesh Lekhak, 1,479; Purna Bahadur Khadka, 1,477; Mahesh Acharya, 1,465; Bal Bahadur KC, 1,463; Bimalendra Nidhi, 1,454; Ram Sharan Mahat, 1,425; Sujata Koirala, 1,416; Bishwa Prakash Sharma, 1,413; Shankar Bhandari, 1,354; NP Saud, 1,343; Badri Pande, 1,319; Gopal Man Shrestha, 1,308, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, 1,300; Chandra Bhandari, 1,295; Prakash Sharan Mahat, 1,279; Narayan Khadka, 1,279; Minendra Rijal, 1261; Padam Narayan Chaudhari, 1143; Udaya Shumsher Rana, 1,133 and Jip Tshring Lama, 1,097.

Each of the seven provinces will have two seats. In each of the seven provinces top three leading candidates are as follows after 1,400 ballot papers were counted. Province 1: Guru Raj Ghimire, 603; Bhishma Raj Angdambe, 537; Amrit Aryal, 507. Province 2: Ananda Prasad Dhungana, 656; Ramesh Rijal, 634, Teju Lal Chaudhari 525. Province 3: Nabindra Raj Joshi, 573; Mohan Bahadur Basnet, 479; Ram Nath Adhikari, 406.

Province 4: Govinda Bhattarai, 594, Surendra Raj Pande, 555; Arjun Prasad Joshi, 532.

Province 5: Dipak Giri, 658; Devendra Raj Kandel, 576; Bharat Kumar Shah, 537.

Province 6: Hridaya Ram Thani, 736; Jivan Bahadur Shahi, 666; Din Bandhu Shrestha, 624. Province 7: Dilendra Prasad Badu, 715; Bir Bahadur Balayar, 623; Bahadur Singh Thapa, 457.