{"id":56309,"date":"2026-10-07T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56309"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:43:29","slug":"nc-publishes-first-list-of-candidates-for-15th-general-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nc-publishes-first-list-of-candidates-for-15th-general-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"NC publishes first list of candidates for 15th general convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 7: The Nepali Congress (NC) Central Election Committee has published the first list of candidates contesting various posts at the party\u2019s ongoing 15th national general convention.<br \/>\nThe party has 24 office-bearer positions, including one president, one senior vice-president, four vice-presidents, three general secretaries, 15 joint general secretaries and one treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 19 positions will be elected, while four joint general secretaries and the treasurer will be nominated by the party President.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Election Committee, 79 candidates have filed nominations for the 19 elected office-bearer positions.<\/p>\n<p>Three candidates are contesting the presidency: incumbent President Gagan Thapa, former Joint General Secretary Kishor Singh Rathore and former regional president Shyam Krishna Khadka.<br \/>\nBishwa Prakash Sharma is contesting the senior vice-president post.<\/p>\n<p>Ten candidates are vying for two open vice-president positions, while Pushpa Bhusal is contesting the women\u2019s vice-president post and five candidates are competing for the inclusive vice-president position.<\/p>\n<p>Seven candidates have filed nominations for two open general secretary positions, while three are contesting the women\u2019s general secretary post.<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of candidates have also filed nominations for various joint general secretary and central member positions.<\/p>\n<p>Election Committee Member Secretary Raju Katuwal shared that claims and objections to the first list could be filed from 10:00am to noon today .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 7: The Nepali Congress (NC) Central Election Committee has published the first list of candidates contesting various posts at the party\u2019s ongoing 15th national general convention. The party has 24 office-bearer positions, including one president, one senior vice-president, four vice-presidents, three general secretaries, 15 joint general secretaries and one treasurer. Of these, 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56318,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309\/revisions\/56318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}