Kathmandu. Ramchandra Paudel, a top leader in the Nepali Congress, has been chosen as a candidate for the position of the nation’s future president. The election for the position of head of state will be held on March 9.

According to the party’s vice president Dhanraj Gurung, Sanepa unanimously resolved to propose Paudel as the party’s presidential candidate during this morning’s NC Central Executive Committee meeting at the party’s headquarters.

It should be noted that the Congress, the CPN-Maoist Centre, the Janata Samajwadi Party, the CPN-Unified Socialist, the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, the Janamat Party, the Rastriya Janamorcha, and the Nagarik Unmukti Party decided on Friday to support the Congress’ candidate in the election for the new Head of State of the nation.

Today from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, nominations for the people running for the position are being accepted. On March 9, the election for the position of President will take place.

Paudel has already served as Home and deputy prime minister, speaker of house of representatives(lower house), minister for peace and reconstruction, General Secretary of party’s central committee, vice president of party’s central committee and many more.

He being a critic of the authoritarian panchayat regime (while leading protests against the King’s directly imposed ruling system), he has spent more than 15 years as a political prisoner.

He beleives that freedom and democracy should rule in all aspect of peoples’ sociocultural, political, and economic lives.

According to him freedom and democracy are the only way for the country to become united, strong and to maintain the check and balance.