{"id":113703,"date":"2026-10-10T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=113703"},"modified":"2026-10-10T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:37:43","slug":"gagan-thapa-elected-president-of-nepali-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/113703\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagan Thapa elected president of Nepali Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p> Gagan Thapa elected as the President of Nepali Congress <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Kathmandu. Gagan Kumar Thapa has been elected as the new President of the Nepali Congress with a majority in the election held under the 15th General Convention of the Nepali Congress.<strong><\/p>\n<p> According to the final results of the vote count held at the National Assembly Hall, Thapa got 6,584 votes and won the post of president, according to the Nepali Congress Central Election Committee. His nearest rival Shyam Krishna Khadgi got 375 votes. According to the Central Election Committee, a total of 7,<\/p>\n<p>013 votes were cast in the election. Of them, 6,959 votes were valid while 54 votes were invalid. <\/p>\n<p> Coordinator of the Election Committee Prem Bahadur Khadka, Member Secretary Raju Katuwal and member Sujan Lopchan certified the election results of the election after completing the vote counting as per the Nepali Congress Statute-2017 (with 11th amendment) and Election Directive-2083. <\/p>\n<p><p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar. com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_a00949dc-768x1024. jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gagan Thapa elected as the President of Nepali Congress Kathmandu. Gagan Kumar Thapa has been elected as the new President of the Nepali Congress with a majority in the election held under the 15th General Convention of the Nepali Congress. According to the final results of the vote count held at the National Assembly Hall,<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/10\/10\/113703\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Gagan Thapa elected president of Nepali Congress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":113694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113703","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\/photo1_a66a8ff1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113703","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=113703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113704,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113703\/revisions\/113704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/113694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}