Five journalists file candidacy for FNJ Presidency

December 7, Kathmandu: Five journalists have filed their candidacies for the post of President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ). The FNJ election is scheduled for December 13.

Kamal Giri, Debi Prasad Sapkota, Nirmala Sharma, Ramesh Bista and Lal Singh Lama have filed their nominations for the president’s post.

Similarly, the FNJ secretariat registered the candidacy of Govinda Prasad Chaulagain, Damodar Prasad Dawadi, Dipak Acharya and Roshan Puri for the post of senior vice president.

Ganga Poudel and Nitu Pandit have filed their candidacies for the post of vice-president (women) while Janmadev Jaisi, Prakash Thapa, Ram Prasad Dahal and Lekhnath Neupane to the post of general secretary.

A total of 133 nominations were filed for the 52-member central executive committee. As per the election schedule, 133 candidacies were filed for 47 posts from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Friday.