{"id":56754,"date":"2026-10-13T21:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56754"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:14:06","slug":"khatiwada-and-shiwakoti-elected-joint-general-secretary-of-nc-gautam-wins-women-joint-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/khatiwada-and-shiwakoti-elected-joint-general-secretary-of-nc-gautam-wins-women-joint-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Khatiwada and Shiwakoti elected joint general secretary of NC; Gautam wins women joint general secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 13: Nepali Congress leaders Ramhari Khatiwada and Ajay Babu Shivakoti, have been elected joint general secretary (open category) in the 15th General Convention of the Nepali Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Khatiwada and Shiwakoti emerged victorious in the vote count that concluded today. There were nine contestants for the two positions.<\/p>\n<p>Member-secretary of the Election Committee, Raju Katwal, informed that Khatiwada received 2,910 votes and Shiwakoti got 2,173 votes to win.<\/p>\n<p>For the female joint general secretary, Pratima Gautam emerged winner. In the election for the single post, Gautam received 5,116 votes to secure victory. Her closest competitor Nanu Bastola got 1,554 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the Women\u2019s Central Committee member (open category) election, 15 women were elected as central members. According to the election committee, Basana Thapa got the highest 5,193 votes and was elected first. Urmila Thapaliya received 3,970 votes, Nima Giri 3,906, Kusum Devi Thapa 3,250, and Dhana Kumari Khatiwada 3,231 votes to win.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the election committee said that Binita Khadka, Anita Devkota, Rita Sen Oli, Srijana Adhikari, Muna Bhusal, Geeta Satyal, Kalpana Tiwari, Rita Thapamagar, Ganga Dahal, and Uma Dahal also won.<\/p>\n<p>There were 36 candidates competing for the 15 spots in the women\u2019s open category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 13: Nepali Congress leaders Ramhari Khatiwada and Ajay Babu Shivakoti, have been elected joint general secretary (open category) in the 15th General Convention of the Nepali Congress. Khatiwada and Shiwakoti emerged victorious in the vote count that concluded today. There were nine contestants for the two positions. Member-secretary of the Election Committee, Raju [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56754","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\/56754"}],"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=56754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56756,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions\/56756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}