Nepal, March 27 -- The election for new leadership of the Nepal Bar Association (NBA), an umbrella organisation of professional lawyers, is scheduled for April 5, 2025. Lawyers loyal to ruling parties-the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)-have forged an electoral alliance. The ruling parties have fielded senior advocate Bijaya Prasad Mishra from the NC as the NBA head. Whereas Kedar Koirala, the general secretary candidate, belongs to the UML.

Raman Shrestha, a former attorney general, is in a fray to counter Mishra. Representing the opposition bloc, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist), Shrestha has intensified his election campaign. Lawyers aligned with the Maoists and the Rast...