Nepal, Jan. 23 -- Nepali Congress (NC) has officially announced party president Gagan Thapa as its candidate for the post of Prime Minister for the March 5 House of Representative (HoR) election.

The declaration was made by a Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting held at the party headquarters in Sanepa on Friday.

The proposal to nominate Thapa was put forward by Vice President Bishwa Prakash Sharma and supported by fellow Vice President Pushpa Bhusal and the committee endorsed it without objection.

The session marked the first time the newly elected CWC has convened at the Sanepa office following the Special General Convention held January 11-14, which dissolved the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led committee and elected a new leadership team....