Kathmandu, Jan. 23 -- UML and the Rastriya Swatantra Party, the Nepali Congress is going to hit the campaign trail by declaring its president, Gagan Thapa, its prime ministerial candidate on Friday.

The party's central working committee is set to convene at the party headquarters in Sanepa for the first time after Thapa was elected the Congress chief from its special general convention on January 15.

Friday's meeting will declare Thapa as the Congress's prime ministerial candidate, General Secretary Uday Sumsher Rana told the Post. Thapa will take his chair at the party headquarters on Friday afternoon. Thapa, who had been contesting from Kathmandu-4, has filed his candidacy from Sarlahi-4 this time. Amaresh Kumar Singh of the RSP is Th...