Ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) on Sunday finalised all the candidates of Kathmandu Metropolitan City for the upcoming local level elections.
According to the party’s Kathmandu district incharge Lekhnath Neupane, the party has picked Sarvottam Dongol for the mayoral candidate of KMC. Dongol is the party's politburo member and in-charge of KMC.
Maoist Centre was considering independent and more popular candidate for the mayoral candidate of the party but failed to find any, party sources said.
The party has also decided to field Sushil Poudel, party's member of the national convention organising committee, for the deputy mayor of KMC.
Neupane said the party has fielded 32 candidates for ward chairpersons.
Tika R Pradhan is a senior political correspondent for the Post, covering politics, parliament, judiciary and social affairs. Pradhan joined the Post in 2016 after working at The Himalayan Times for more than a decade.
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