These are the office bearers and central members (with list)

KATHMANDU: DEC. 24 – The 14th General Convention of the Nepali Congress has chosen leadership. The counting of votes by the Nepali Congress (NC) Central Committee, which began on Dec. 10 and was completed on Dec. 13, came to a close on Thursday evening.

The counting of votes was completed on the 14th day of the General Convention’s inauguration. On Dec. 10, Congress convened the general convention at the party office in the capital. Congress had tallied the votes of the central members, including the office bearers, at the party office in Sanepa after tallying the votes of the chairperson.

The presidential election was held in two phases, with Deuba winning a second term. Elections for 134 seats in Congress were held. There were a total of 487 candidates in the election.

Voting was held for the central members including one president, two vice presidents, two general secretaries and eight joint general secretaries. The president will now be able to add 33 central members on the basis of inclusiveness.

Who won?

Office bearers

President – Sher Bahadur Deuba
Vice Presidents – Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung
General Secretary – Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma
Joint General Secretaries – Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya ‘Dina’, Jeevan Pariyar, Badra Pandey, Farmulha Mansur, Bhishmaraj Angdembe, Kishor Singh Rathore, Mahendra Yadav, Uma Kanta Chaudhary

Central members

Open side (35 people)

Shashank Koirala, NP Saud, Bal Krishna Khand, Uday Shamsher Rana, Ram Hari Khatiwada, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Ramesh Lekhak, Shankar Bhandari, Jeep Tshering Lama, Arjun Narasingha K.C., Jit Jung Basnet, Gopalman Shrestha, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, Nain Singh Mahar, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Ram Sharan Mahat, Bal Bahadur KC, Govind Bhattarai, Kundanraj Kafle, Deepak Giri, Surendra Raj Pandey, Padma Narayan Chaudhary, Rajiv Dhungana, Guru Baral, Sanjay Kumar Gautam, Govindaraj Pokhrel, Madan Bahadur Amatya, Ajay Babu Shiwakoti, Ganesh Lama, Dinesh Koirala, Umesh Jung Rayamajhi, Mohan Acharya, Gopal Dahit and Krishna Kishor Ghimire.

Women’s Open (9)

Dilla Sangraula, Pushpa Bhusal, Arju Rana Deuba, Ambika Basnet, Ishwori Neupane, Sarita Prasai, Rama Koirala Poudel, Sushila Dhakal Acharya, Rangmati Shahi.

Adivasi Janajati (15 including 7 women)

Chinkaji Shrestha, Umesh Shrestha, Bahadur Singh Lama, Dilman Pakhrin, Tek Bahadur Gurung, Angelu Sherpa, Taraman Gurung, Tek Prasad Gurung, Sita Gurung, Anjani Shrestha, Saraswati Bajimay, Ganga Laxmi, Maya Rai, Sita Rana and Sushila Thing.

Khas Arya (13 including 6 women)

Keshav Kumar Budhathoki, Govind Bahadur Shah, Bhim Parajuli, Madhu Acharya, Shyam Kumar Ghimire, Narayan Bahadur Karki, Gehendra Giri, Manju Khan, Pratima Gautam, Nanu Banstola, Kantika Sejuwal, Champadevi Khadka and Bidhya Devi Timilsina.

Dalit side (9 including 4 women)

Man Bahadur Nepali, Prakash Rasaili ‘Snehi’, Harisharan Nepali, Nrip Bahadur Wad, Maculal Balmiki, Laxmi Pariyar, Sujata Pariyar, Shanti Pariyar BK and Rupa BK.

Towards Madhesi (9 including 4 women)

Ajay Kumar Chaurasia, Chandra Mohan Yadav, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Binod Kumar Chaudhary, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Nagina Yadav, Manju Kumari Yadav, Minakshi Jha and Mukta Kumari Yadav.

Towards Tharu (4 including 2 women)

Ram Janam Chaudhary, Yogendra Chaudhary, Kalpana Chaudhary and Jeevan Rana.

On the Muslim side (3 including 1 woman)

Abdul Razzaq, Abdul Satar and Javed Khatun.

Minorities (1 person)

Pradeep Kumar Sunuwar

Towards People with Disabilities (1 person)

Madan Krishna Shrestha

Backward (1 person)

Arjun Bahadur Singh

21 people including 3 women from each States

State 1: Amrit Aryal, Rajiv Koirala and Mahendra Kumari Limbu
State 2: Ramesh Rijal, Ananda Dhungana and Chitra Lekha Yadav
Bagmati: Rajendra Kumar KC, Dhyan Govinda Ranjit and Urmila Nepal KC
Lumbini: Devendra Raj Kandel, Chandra Bahadur KC and Shila Sharma Khadka
Gandaki: Dhruba Wagle, Krishna Chandra Pokhrel and Saraswati Aryal Tiwari
Karnali: Karna Bahadur Budha, Rajiv Bikram Shah and Janaki Singh
Far West: Yagya Raj Joshi, Ran Bahadur Rawal and Sushila Mishra Bhatt