Minister Karki recommended from NC as candidate of Sunsari Constituency 4

By Sachin Pokhrel, Sunsari, Sept. 4: Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki has been recommended as a candidate from the Nepali Congress for the election of the Member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Constituency No. 4 of Sunsari district.

The HoR election is slated for November 20.

Minister Karki is also a member of the task force of the ruling alliance for seat allocation and the government spokesperson.

A meeting of the NC Constituency No. 4 of the district held on Sunday recommended Karki, an NC central committee member, unanimously as the NC's sole candidate from the constituency for the November 20 poll.

Minister Karki was elected as the HoR member from the same constituency in the poll held in 2017.

Karki had then secured 31,347 votes against his closest rival Ramesh Shrestha of CPN (UML) who got 25,750.

Ayub Ansari, president of the NC Sunsari constituency no. 4, informed that Minister Karki was recommended unopposed from the party recognising his contribution to the party's organizational consolidation and development of the Sunsari district.

The people of Constituency 4 of Sunsari district have great expectations and trust in NC's influential leader Karki for the overall development of the constituency and the district.