Congress General Convention: Persons contesting for central posts will not be allowed to contest in provinces and districts <\/strong><\/p>\n Kathmandu. A person who has contested for any post in the 15th general convention of the Nepali Congress will not be allowed to contest in the provincial and district working committees to be held thereafter. <\/p>\n Issuing a press release on Saturday, the NC Central Election Committee reminded all about the legal provisions in the party statute. <\/p>\n According to a statement issued by Raju Katuwal, member secretary of the Central Election Committee, the Nepali Congress Statute 2017 (with amendment) has a clear provision regarding elections. According to the statute, a person who has contested in any convention of the party cannot contest for any post of the working committee of the upper or lower level during the same period. <\/p>\n Reminding of the same legal provision, the committee has made it clear that the leaders and cadres contesting for any post at the central level in the upcoming 15th general convention will not be allowed to contest in the elections of the Provincial Working Committee and District Working Committee. <\/p>\n Issuing a press release, the Election Committee has also clarified that there is a legal provision that ex-officio general convention representatives and ex-officio representatives representing sister associations and well-wisher organizations are barred from contesting in the central working committee in the general convention. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congress General Convention: Persons contesting for central posts will not be allowed to contest in provinces and districts Kathmandu. A person who has contested for any post in the 15th general convention of the Nepali Congress will not be allowed to contest in the provincial and district working committees to be held thereafter. Issuing aContinue reading “NC General Convention: Central candidates barred from candidacy in provinces and districts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":110356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_7900757e.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110358,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110357\/revisions\/110358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/110356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}