WORLD NEWS | Nepal’s parliament elects Sher Bahadur Deuba as leader of its parliamentary party

Kathmandu [Nepal]December 21 (ANI): Nepal’s caretaker prime minister and Nepal Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba became the party after defeating party general secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa in elections held on Wednesday. leader of the parliamentary party.

According to the Kathmandu Post, Deuba received 64 votes to secure victory, while the party’s general secretary, Gagan Thapa, received 25 votes.

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According to the “Daily Mail” report, with the victory, Deuba will become the candidate for the new prime minister of the Nepalese Congress.

Voting for the Nepal Congress parliamentary leadership election was held with a 100 percent turnover.

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The 89 lawmakers of the Nepali Congress elected to the House of Representatives voted in the election to choose the party’s parliamentary party leader.

Sher Bahadur Deuba and Gagan Thapa submitted their candidatures after the race to form a government began following general elections on November 20.

The first meeting of Nepal’s newly-elected lower House will be held on December 22.

On December 19, the Parliament secretariat announced that the oath-taking ceremony of newly-elected representatives will take place on Thursday at 1 pm (local time). The oldest member (according to age) will be sworn in by the President and the other members of Congress will be oldest member sworn in

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has called on members of the House of Representatives to form a government by December 25.

The Nepali Congress held elections to choose its parliamentary leader before the oath-taking ceremony of newly elected members.

Nepal’s other opposition parties have unanimously elected their parliamentary party leaders. The parliamentary leaders of the opposition parties CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist-Leninist) and CPN-Maoist Center have been chosen unchallenged.

NUML, which split into two factions a year and a half before the general election, has appointed its chairman and former prime minister KP Sharma Oli as its parliamentary party leader. Meanwhile, the CPN-Maoist Center chose Pushpa Kamal Dahal as party leader with no opposition or challenge. (Arnie)

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