Kathmandu, March 7
The Congress has decided to field former MP Kumari Laxmi Rai as its candidate for President.
A meeting of the party’s top brass in Sanepa on Thursday morning decided to field Rai as its candidate for the top post. Rai entered active politics in 1973. She is the daughter of Nepali Congress former leader Dewan Singh Rai, who was assassinated during the Panchayat days.
The Nepali Congress had earlier hinted that it would field Man Bahadur Biswhokarma as its candidate for the race. But after the UML selected a woman candidate, the opposition party also decided to pick a woman candidate.
The UML and its Left Alliance ally the CPN Maoist Centre command a majority in both Houses of Parliament and Rai does not stand a chance at winning the elections. It is all but certain that Bhandari will be re-elected as President on March 13.
