KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 25

Birendra Prasad Singh and Chandra Shekhar Yadav have been elected vice-presidents of Nepali Congress Province 2.

Singh and Yadav won with 1,019 and 895 votes respectively.

Their nearest rival Binod Kumar Khanal got 740 votes while Dhanlal Thokar got 636 votes, according to the Election Committee.

In the post of two general secretaries, Upendra Kumar Yadav won with 959 votes and Brihaspati Krishna Shrestha won with 788 votes. Their nearest rival was Naresh Yadav who got 775 votes and Haresh Prasad Mahato garnered 703 votes.

Likewise, Jayanarayan Yadav with 879 votes and Parashuram Chaudhary with 822 votes were elected joint general secretaries.

Meanwhile, in joint general secretary's post (female) Bindu Kumari Yadav won with 889 votes while her nearest rival Bhimadavi Sharma got 532 votes.

Earlier, Krishna Yadav had been elected as president of Nepali Congress Province 2 yesterday. Yadav was elected as Province 2 president with 996 votes while his nearest rival Ram Saroj Yadav got 855 votes.

Prahlad Gautam, coordinator of the election committee, said that the counting of votes for the post of members of the provincial committee was under way.

A total of 1,881 out of 1,951 voters had cast their votes for 67 posts on Thursday.

A version of this article appears in the print on December 26, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.