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Congress will not nominate candidates for National Assembly and State MPs

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Kathmandu. The Nepali Congress has decided not to make people's representatives at any level candidates in the upcoming elections. A circular has been issued by the Congress central office clarifying the criteria for candidate recommendation to those in the National Assembly and State Assembly not to recommend candidates.

Names of honorable parliamentarians currently sitting in the National Assembly cannot be recommended as candidates. The names of members of the Provincial Assembly who are currently sitting in the Provincial Assembly cannot be recommended as candidates, the circular said. Earlier, in the circular sent with 10 points criteria, it was also asked to recommend candidates to the elected representatives of the party in the local level elections held in 079.

In the 2079 election, the Congress has asked not to recommend the persons who were elected as members of the House of Representatives and members of the Provincial Assembly by proportional representation, as well as those who were included in the closed list of proportional representation in the Provincial Assembly election, 2079.

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