Voting today for the next leadership election in UML, interesting competition between Oli-Ishwar panel
-
Media Baaji
- Tue, 16 December 2025
Kathmandu. CPN-UML's 11th National Congress held in Kathmandu today is voting for the next leadership election. According to the schedule of the party's Central Election Commission, voting will be held today from 12 noon to 6 pm. Current President KP Sharma Oli and Senior Vice President Ishwar Pokharel have entered the fray with separate panels for the leadership of the party for the next five-year term. Pokharel has challenged Oli who is going to become the president for the third time in the 11th Congress.
Oli was elected as the president from the party's ninth and tenth congresses. Vishnu Paudel, Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal', Guru Baral and Prithvisubba Gurung are contesting for the election from Oli's panel.
From Oli's panel, the current general secretary Shankar Pokharel has been replaced as the general secretary. Raghuveer Mahaseth, Vishnu Rimal and Lekhraj Bhatt are in the electoral competition for three deputy general secretaries from Oli's panel.
Padma Aryal, Chavi Lal Vishwakarma, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, Khagraj Adhikari, Yamlal Kandel, Sherdhan Rai, Mahesh Basnet, Hikmat Karki and Rajan Bhattarai are contesting for nine secretaries.
Express
Related News
What is in the commitment letter of Bright Nepal?
Bright Nepal Party UNEPA has published its election pledge emphasizing on good governance, prosperity and social justice. President of UNEPA, Kulman Ghising, announced the election commitment letter at a press conference in Kathmandu on Sunday. UN...
Sudan Kirati left Pralopa, in conversation with Hark Sampang
Kathmandu. Sudan Kirati, a member of the President's Council of the Progressive Democratic Party Pralopa, has left. Former minister Kirati has informed that he has left the party without even being an ordinary member of the party through the socia...
Preparing for the consent of paresy coalitions, Jitendra Sonal Chief Minister in Madhes
Janakpur. After the leadership of the Madhes Pradesh government, the party between the parties are underway to be allocated between the parties in Madhesi region. The meeting of various p...
100% voting in Kaski Jail
Kathmandu. 100 percent voting took place in the temporary polling station established in Kaski Jail. Although there are 697 prisoners in the prison, only 37 people listed in the voter's list participated in the voting. According to the polli...
Evidence that Gagan's team did not reach the minimum number to call a special convention
Kathmandu. Chairman of Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba Group has informed the Election Commission that more than 800 convention representatives have withdrawn their signatures regarding the special convention. After reaching the commission on F...
Hark Sampang's suggestion to Home Minister Sudhan Gurung to resign
Kathmandu. Harkaraj Rai Sampang, Chairman of Shram Sanskriti Party, has suggested Home Minister Sudhan Gurung to resign. In Kathmandu, Sampang held a press conference today and said, 'His news is always being heard. It would be better if that were...