SURKHET: The Nepali Congress has finalized the candidates for the by-election being held at two local levels of Jajarkot on December 1.
The party committee in the related local levels readied the candidates on Thursday.
NC's Karnali Province committee chair Lalit Jung Shahi informed that Indra Chand Singh was recommended as an candidate for the post of vice chair of Nalgad municipality while Khamba Bahadur Singh was picked for the post of chair at ward no 7 of Kushe rural municipality.
The post of vice chair at Nalgad municipality has been lying vacant after then vice chair Sarita Singh was killed in the Jajarkot earthquake occurred on November 3, 2023.
Similarly, then ward chair of Kushe-7, Man Bahadur Gharti had died in July 2022.
The CPN-UML has decided to field Sunita Bohara at Nalgad municipality. However, the Maoist Centre is yet to take decision to this regard.
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