The Sher Bahadur Deuba faction of the Nepali Congress has elected new district leadership in Darchula and Salyan, installing Surendra Prasad Awasthi and Dipak Jung Chand as district chairs in the two districts. The Darchula district convention was held in Khalanga, while Salyan hosted its 15th district convention in Shreenagar. In addition to electing chairs, delegates in both districts chose vice-chairs, secretaries and full working committees, and also picked representatives to the party's convention and provincial-level bodies.

Awasthi Takes Charge of Darchula Committee

The Darchula convention, convened in Khalanga, concluded with the election of Surendra Prasad Awasthi as district chair of the Deuba faction's committee. Delegates returned two vice-chairs, Lal Singh Dhami and Dilip Singh Mahata, while Lal Bahadur Chand was elected to the secretary's post. The convention then completed its organisational exercise by constituting a 37-member district working committee, giving the faction a full leadership structure at the district level in the Sudurpashchim district.

Darchula Office Bearers

  • District Chair: Surendra Prasad Awasthi
  • Vice-Chairs: Lal Singh Dhami and Dilip Singh Mahata
  • Secretary: Lal Bahadur Chand
  • Committee Strength: 37 members

A 37-member committee spreads responsibility across a wide circle of local leaders and activists. District committees of this kind are the backbone of a party's organisational machinery, expected to coordinate municipal and ward-level units, oversee membership work and lead local campaigns. That makes the election of the chair, vice-chairs and secretary the central outcome of any district convention, and the Darchula unit now has all three positions filled along with a sizeable working committee behind them.

Unanimous Election for Chand in Salyan

In Salyan, the 15th district convention of the faction, held in Shreenagar, unanimously elected Dipak Jung Chand as district chair. Yagya Bikram Shah was elected vice-chair, Rajesh Kumar Regmi secretary and Gopal Chand co-secretary. The absence of a contest for the top post underlines the consensus reached among local delegates, allowing the convention to complete its leadership elections without a floor vote.

Salyan Office Bearers

  • District Chair: Dipak Jung Chand
  • Vice-Chair: Yagya Bikram Shah
  • Secretary: Rajesh Kumar Regmi
  • Co-Secretary: Gopal Chand

Salyan, which lies in Karnali Province, has now completed its 15th district convention, a marker of how many times the district unit has gone through the formal process of renewing its leadership. With the chair, vice-chair, secretary and co-secretary all in place, the Salyan unit emerges from the convention with a complete top-tier team to run district affairs.

Convention and Provincial Representatives Also Elected

Beyond the headline posts, both the Darchula and Salyan conventions also elected convention representatives and provincial representatives. These elections are a routine but significant part of district conventions, as the representatives chosen at this level go on to speak for their districts in higher-tier party gatherings and in provincial committee structures.

For the newly elected district leadership, having a recognised slate of convention and provincial representatives provides the formal linkage through which district voices are carried upward within the party. It also means the two conventions did not stop at naming office bearers but completed the wider representative exercise that district conventions are designed to deliver.

Results Under the Deuba Faction's Banner

The faction label attached to both results is noteworthy. The source report identifies the newly elected committees as belonging to the Sher Bahadur Deuba faction of the Nepali Congress, one of Nepal's major political parties, underlining that the Darchula and Salyan conventions were held under the organisational banner of the group aligned with the party's senior leader.

Read together, the two results show the faction installing complete district leadership teams in one Sudurpashchim district and one Karnali district, each with a chair, vice-chairs, a secretary or secretaries, and elected representatives to convention and provincial bodies. District conventions are the principal mechanism through which a party renews its district units, electing the leadership that runs district affairs between conventions, and both Darchula and Salyan have now completed that cycle under the Deuba faction's banner.

The district convention results were first reported by RatoPati, which covered the unanimous Salyan election of Dipak Jung Chand and the completion of the district leadership polls in both Darchula and Salyan.