KC, Gagan Thapa, Khadka maintain constant lead

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KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress leaders Arjun Narsingh KC, Gagan Thapa, Khum Bahadur Khadka, Pradip Giri, Sashank Koirala and Ram Chandra Paudel among others have held lead in the vote count under the open category of the party’s Central Working Committee elections.

Likewise, the vote count for the CWC membership under the zonal category was organised simultaneously with open category counting.

However, the Today’s vote counting has been postponed for tomorrow morning.

Twenty-five members from the open category and 14 from the zonal will be elected in the Nepali Congress CWC.

Vote Tally of Open Category

With 600 votes counted,

Arjun Narsingh KC: 395

Gagan Thapa: 391

Khum Bahadur Khadka: 361

Pradip Giri: 348

Sashank Koirala: 345

Ram Chandra Paudel: 342

N P Saud: 301

Bal Krishna Khand: 321

Sujata Koirala: 343

Dr Ram Sharan Mahat: 323

Mahesh Acharya: 283

Dr Shekhar Koirala: 297

Chandra Bhandari: 279

Krishna Sitaula: 274

Gopal Man Shrestha: 265

Dr Minendra Rijal: 270

Prakash Sharan Mahat: 286

Dr Narayan Khadka 248

Purna Bahadur Khadka 250

K B Gurung 236

Gyanendra Bahadur Karki 217

Shankar Bhandari: 230

Pradip Paudel: 183

Deep Kumar Upadhyay: 95

Ram Krishna Tamrakar: 75

Binaya Dhwoj Chand: 59

Zonal Category

With 900 votes counted

Mahakali

Dilendra Prasad Badu: 411

Ramesh Lekhak: 366

Seti

Badri Pandey: 289

Arjun Jang Bdr Singh: 274

Bheri

Kishor Singh Rathaur: 323

Hridaya Ram Thani: 254

Rapti

Deepak Giri: 421

Rajendra Bdr Shah: 219

Karnali

Jeevan Bahadur Shahi: 378

Din Bandhu Shrestha: 344

Lumbini

Krishna Chandra Nepali: 304

Bharat Kumar Shah: 307

Gandaki

Surendra Prasad Pande: 234

Raghu Nath Paudel: 233

Narayani

Ramesh Rijal: 325

Rajendra Bdr Amatya: 288

Dhaulagiri

Arjun Prasad Joshi: 372

Kiran Paudel: 335

Janakpur

Ananda Prasad Dhungana: 316

Devi Neupane: 219

Bagmati

Navindra Raj Joshi: 405

Dhyan Govinda Ranjit: 281

Sagarmath

Ram Kumar Chaudahari: 242

Subas Pokharel: 373

Koshi

Amod Prasad Upadhyay: 358

Umesh Jang Rayamajhi: 302

Mechi

Naredra Bikram Nembang: 488

Sudhir Kumar Siwakoti: 234