Congratulations!!! Nanda Kishor Pun elected as the Vice President of Nepal; 325 MPs voted for Mr. Pun
Congratulations!!! to Nanda Kishor Pun for being elected as the Vice President of Nepal. Voting had started from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The results were announced at 5 PM.
Standing Committee member of the UCPN (Maoist), Nanda Kishor Pun, and leader of Nepali congress, Amiya Kumar Yadav, had filed their candidacy to the post.
Mr. Pun received 325 votes while Mr. Yadav secured 212 votes out of 547 votes casted. 10 votes were disqualified. The agitating Madhesi parties have boycotted this election.
After the promulgation of new constitution through the Constituent Assembly, the Legislature-Parliament has elected the Vice President for the first time. On October 28 the same parliament elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari for the post of president of Nepal.
Brief Biography of Nanda Kishor Pun
- Real name Nanda Bahadur Pun
- Standing Committee member of Unified CPN-Maoist.
- Born to Ramsur and late Mansara on October 23, 1965 at Rangsi VDC of Rolpa district
- Chief commander of then CPN-Maoist People’s Liberation Army
- Joined Revolutionary Student wing
- Member of CPN-Mashal in 1990; full-time member of CPN-Unity Centre Mashal in 1992
- Became regional bureau member of CPN-Maoist in 1998
- Central member in 2001
- Politburo member in 2004
- Appointed chief of PLA in 2008
- Refused to go to India for treatment when both his kidneys failed in 2012, was successfully treated in Nepal
- Standing Committee member in 2013
- Taught at Lower Secondary School of Rangsi for nine years
- Never took any office of benefit even when his party led two government
. Biography Source: THT
