Big announcement of Nepali Congress regarding presidential election, government on backfoot

Now the process of fielding candidates for the presidential election has started in Nepal. On Saturday, the Nepali Congress Party has declared senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel as its candidate.Now politics has started in Nepal regarding the presidential election. The Nepali Congress on Saturday decided to field senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel in the presidential election. Poudel is a very senior leader of the party and he will get the support of the new alliance formed by joining 8 parties.

According to sources, the eight political parties supporting include Nepali Congress, CPN-Maoist, CPN-Unified Socialist, Rashtriya Janata Party, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janmorcha, Civil Liberation Party and Janmat Party. All the parties in a joint meeting on Friday decided to vote for the Nepali Congress candidate for the post of President.

At the same time, senior Nepali Congress leader Bimalendra Nidhi said that a high-level meeting of the Nepali Congress convened on Saturday will officially decide the presidential candidate. Candidates wishing to contest the presidential election in Nepal will have to file their nominations on February 25 and the voting will be held on March 9.

On the other hand, the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party has withdrawn support from the current government led by the new Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the country. The party has also announced to pull it out of the government. Last week, there was a ruckus on a statement of the Nepali Congress Party. After the withdrawal of support, the Dahal government has once again come on the back foot.

The party's general secretary Gagan Thapa had said that the new government of the country would fall by 22 February. However, this did not happen and Pushpa Kamal Dahal's government is still in the country. Thapa had said that the present government was formed against the mandate.