The Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) has decided to field the party’s parliamentary leader, Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav, as the party’s vice-presidential candidate.
JSP lawmaker Pradeep Yadav told Media that a JSP meeting held on Thursday decided to put forward Ram Sahay Prasad as its vice-presidential candidate. Ram Sahay Prasad was elected to the Bara-2 House of Representatives in the general election on 20 November.
On February 24, eight parties had reached an agreement to support the Nepali Congress for president and also to give the vice-president post to JSP.
JSP Chairman Upendra Yadav is making his confidant Ram Sahay Prasad the party’s vice-presidential candidate.
A by-election must be held in his Bara-2 constituency if Ram Sahay Prasad is elected Vice President. Vice-presidential candidates must submit their nominations by March 13, while the vice-presidential election is scheduled for March 17.
Meanwhile, it seems increasingly likely that a new unopposed vice president will be elected on March 17 with the chances that the CPN-UML will not field the party’s candidate for the job.
UML has yet to decide whether or not to field a vice-presidential candidate. According to the sources, UML will not field its candidate if a JSP leader runs for vice president as the common candidate of eight parties.
UML and JSP also held informal talks on the issue on the sidelines of the presidential election held at the Parliament building in New Baneshwar, Kathmandu on Thursday.
A UML official told JSP lawmakers that there was no chance of UML running for Vice President.
