Gagan Thapa tops Nepali Congress vote count, women leaders feature among top 10

KATHMANDU: Gagan Kumar Thapa, elected president of the Nepali Congress at its 15th General Convention, secured the highest number of votes, winning 6,584 votes, or 94.6 percent of the total votes cast.

His presidential rival, Shyam Krishna Khadgi, received 375 votes, accounting for 5.4 percent of the total.

Among the top 10 vote-getters in the convention, Chiri Babu Maharjan, an open-category central member and mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, ranked second with 5,330 votes, or 77.5 percent.