Nepal: PM Deuba secures second tenure as Nepali Congress party president

Dec 15, 2021

Kathmandu (Nepal), Dec 15 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has secured a comfortable majority securing the post of party president for the second consecutive term after the second round of voting in the General Convention of the ruling Nepali Congress.The 75-year-old and five-time Prime Minister Deuba, secured 2,733 votes, leaving his contender Dr Shekhar Koirala behind with 1,855 votes, as per the final results published by the election committee. Earlier, Deuba faced four other candidates vying for the same post in the first round, which led to a run-off.Upon getting support from influential leaders Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Prakash Man Singh, Bimalendra Nidhi, and Sashank Koirala in the runoff, Deuba secured the majority. In the 1991 elections, Deuba was elected to the House of Representatives from Dadeldhura where he was born in 1946. Deuba was again elected from the same constituency in the 1994 mid-term elections and was elected parliamentary party leader of the Nepali Congress.