Dilli Chaudhary elected NC PP leader in Lumbini Province

RUPANDEHI: Dilli Chaudhary has been unanimously elected the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader in the Lumbini Province Assembly.

Chaudhary is the elected member of the Province Assembly from Dang electoral constituency 3 (A). He is currently the Minister for Tourism, Rural and Urban Development in the provincial government. Chaudhary was also a member of the Constituent Assembly.

The Nepali Congress has 27 seats, including 17 under the first-past-the-post and 10 under the proportional representation electoral system in the 87-member Lumbini Province Assembly. The CPN-UML is the largest party in the Assembly with 29 seats.