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Kathmandu, March 7: Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected the party new President from the 13th General Convention. He was declared the new party president of the country's oldest party through the run-off voting concluded late this evening. Deuba secured 1,822 to become the chief of the largest party in the present Legislature-Parliament
Deuba's close contender party Acting President Ram Chandra Poudel garnered 1,296 votes. Of 3,140 votes cast, 22 were invalid. He had been defeated to Girija Prasad Koirala in the race for the party presidency during the party's 10 General Convention and with Sushil Koirala in the 12th General Convention.
The NC General Convention decided to go for the run-off voting as no candidates in the election race (party Acting President Ramchandra Poudel, senior leader Deuba and General Secretary Krishna Prasad Sitaula) secured majority as per the party statute.
This is the first time in the history of Nepali Congress that it exercised the run-off election to choose the president. In the first-round of the election, Deuba secured 1,564 votes against 1,152 votes of his nearest competitor Poudel.
Though Deuba led the first-round election, just 11 votes were insufficient for him to become the party president at that time. The third candidate Sitaula had just 324 votes. RSS