April 13: Second-round election is taking place today to elect the senior vice-president of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) today (April 13). The election is taking place again after no single candidate out of three – Ram Chandra Sanghai, Umesh Lal Shrestha and Anjan Shrestha – secured the required 50 per cent votes in the first round.    
Ram Chandra Sanghai is out from the first-phase election. Umesh Lal Shrestha and Anjan Shreshta are in the race in the second phase.    
Out of weightage of the votes cast in district/municipality commodity and associate, Anjan Shrestha got the highest 37.99 per cent votes, Umesh Lal Shrestha garnered 31.51 per cent votes and Ram Chandra Sanghai 30.46 per cent votes.    
As per the FNCCI's statute, one should receive at least 50 per cent vote to be elected as the senior vice-president. The first round of election had taken place on Wednesday. The counting of votes of senior vice-president had concluded on Thursday morning.    
As per the result, out of the total 1,620 votes cast towards associate, Ram Chandra Sanghai had got 612, Anjan Shrestha 573 and Umesh Lal Shrestha 426 while eight votes were invalid.    
Similarly, out of the total 117 votes cast towards district/municipality, Anjan Shrestha had received 47 votes while Ram Chandra Sanghai and Umesh Lal Shrestha got 39 and 28 votes respectively. Three votes were invalid.    
Likewise, of the total 123 votes cast towards commodity, Umesh Lal Shrestha got 69 votes, Anjan Shrestha 41 and Ram Chandra Sanghai 12 while one vote was invalid.    
The second-round of election to the post of senior-vice president would be held today itself. According to Chief Election Officer, Leelamani Poudel, the voting would take place from 2:00-5:00 pm today. -- RSS