KATHMANDU: (Jan 19) Election campaign is heating up in Nepal despite the winter chill in the Himalayan nation, with three political parties projecting their prime ministerial candidates for the March 5 general elections.
While the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), the largest communist party, has officially announced the recently deposed prime minister K P Sharma Oli, 74, as its prime ministerial candidate, Nepal’s oldest party, the Nepali Congress, and the newly formed Rastriya Swotantra Party have projected their respective prime ministerial candidates below the age of 50.
Gagan Thapa, 49, was elected the president of Nepali Congress (NC) last week. Soon after his election, Bishwo Prakash Sharma, the party’s vice president, announced that Thapa would be the prime ministerial candidate.
Source: PTI News
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