KATHMANDU, MARCH 6
Leaders of the nine-party coalition, including its common presidential candidate Ramchandra Paudel, held talks with Rastriya Prajatantra Party leaders.
The coalition parties' leaders reached the RPP central office at Dhumbarahi this evening to seek votes for Paudel in the presidential election to be held on March 9.
On the occasion, RPP leaders informed the visiting team that their central committee meeting on March 8 would reach official decision regarding presidential election, shared NC leader Deepak Khadka, who was also at the meeting.
RPP leaders said they would make the party's official decision in a way that it would not incur any loss after finalising the decision on whether or not to participate in the presidential election.
On the occasion, RPP leaders extended best wishes to Paudel on becoming the common candidate for president on behalf of the coalition.
President candidate and senior NC leader Paudel, along with NC Vice-president Purna Bahadur Khadka, House of Representative member Deepak Khadka, CPN-Maoist Centre leader Shakti Basnet, Loktrantik Samajwadi Party leader Sharat Singh Bhandari and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal leader Rajendra Shrestha, were also present at the meeting.
Also present on behalf of RPP were its Chairperson Rajendra Lingden, leaders Prakash Chandra Lohani, Bikram Pandey, Deepak Bohora and others.
The presidential election is scheduled for March 9. NC candidate Paudel and CPN- UML candidate Subash Nemwang are in the race.
A version of this article appears in the print on March 7, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
