Kathmandu, Oct 7: Voting under the ongoing 15th National General Convention of the Nepali Congress is scheduled to start at 10:00am on Thursday.

The NC General Convention will elect a new leadership for the party from the voting by its 7,255 representatives.

According to party’s Central Election Committee’s coordinator and senior advocate Prem Khadka, though earlier schedule for the commencement of voting was 7:00am, it was postponed by three hours due to rains and some technical reasons.

Seven polling stations at three locations of Kathmandu have been fixed for the voting. For the convenience of representatives, the separate voting centres have been managed for the province and on the basis of representation.

The voting station based at the National City Hall is for representatives from the Bagamati Province, while representatives from the Koshi, Madhesh, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces shall visit to the Khulamanch (open theatre) to cast the vote.

The Election Committee has announced that arrangements were in place for representatives from sister organizations, well-wisher organizations and Public Relations Committees for the voting at Khulamanch as well.

The representatives from Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces are managed polling station at the Nepal Academy building. Representatives from the respective provinces and clusters will visit the designated stations.

According to Election Committee coordinator Khadka, voting will start at 10:00 am. Representatives require presenting their identity cards and ensuring their names is in the voter list to be eligible for taking part in the voting. #nepal #rss