{"id":112439,"date":"2026-10-07T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=112439"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:38:41","slug":"presidential-candidate-kishor-singh-rathore-withdraws-his-candidacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/112439\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential candidate Kishor Singh Rathore withdraws his candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kathmandu. Kishor Singh Rathore, the candidate for the post of president of the Nepali Congress in the 15th General Convention, has withdrawn his candidacy. <\/p>\n<p> Organizing a press conference in Kathmandu on Wednesday, Rathore announced that he has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of president.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, he said, &#8220;I have withdrawn my candidacy for the greater unity of the party as the general convention is going to be held under special circumstances and the president should help the party when it is in crisis.&#8221; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p> Earlier on Tuesday evening, he had filed his candidacy for the post of president at the last hour of the filing of final candidacy. <\/p>\n<p> He had said that since the Congress is a democratic party, no leader should go to the election unopposed, no matter how popular the party president Gagan Kumar Thapa is. After Rathore withdrew his candidacy, Shyam Krishna Khadki will now contest against Gagan Thapa for the post of president. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Kishor Singh Rathore, the candidate for the post of president of the Nepali Congress in the 15th General Convention, has withdrawn his candidacy. Organizing a press conference in Kathmandu on Wednesday, Rathore announced that he has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of president. Speaking to reporters, he said, &#8220;I have withdrawn my candidacy<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/112439\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Presidential candidate Kishor Singh Rathore withdraws his candidacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":112405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112439","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_1f38c08c.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112439","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=112439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112440,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112439\/revisions\/112440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/112405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}