Nepali Congress, CPN-UML write letters to parties requesting votes for their presidential candidates

 

Kathmandu: The Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have written to all the parties in Parliament seeking votes for their respective candidates — Ram Chandra Paudel and Subhash Nemwang — for the Presidential election on March 9.

It comes a day after CPN-UML — the second largest party in Parliament — withdrew its support to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”-led government following a rift over backing Paudel, the main opposition party’s candidate for the presidential poll.

The prime reason for the break-up of the alliance between Prachanda and former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli was the Maoist leader’s decision to support senior Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Paudel for the President’s post, who is from outside the ruling alliance.