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NC, Maoist Centre finalise Mayor candidates for KMC
Ruling parties Nepali Congress and Maoist Centre has finalised names for Mayor candidates for Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).Ruling parties Nepali Congress and Maoist Centre has finalised names for mayor candidates for Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).
NC has picked Rajuraj Joshi and Hariprabha Khadgi as candidates for mayor and deputy mayor respectively. Rajuraj Joshi is elder brother of NC leader Nabindra Raj Joshi.
The CPN (Maoist Centre) has finalised Sarbottam Dangol as mayor candidates.
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The main opposition CPN-UML is yet to pick the mayor candidates for KMC. Top leaders of the party including Chairman KP Oli and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal are currently in meeting to finalise the names.
Party sources said the party had earlier zeroed on Gauri Pradhan and Shanti Adhikari as mayor and deputy mayor candidates. However, the names of Jiwan Ram Shrestha and Bidhya Sundar Shakya are also being discussed.
Pradhan is former member of National Human Rights Commission.




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