About Bidhya Bhandari
Bidhya Devi Bhandari has become the first female head of state of Nepal. She is also the second President of the federal democratic republic of Nepal.Bhandari was elected to the top post through the election held at the Legislature-Parliament on Wednesday. She secured a majority 327 votes of the total 549 votes cast through secret ballot. Her contender Kul Bahadur Gurung of Nepali Congress secured 214 votes. 8 votes were declared nullified.
Speaker Onsari Ghartimagar announced Bhandari’s election to the post at the meeting of Legislature-Parliament convened at 5 pm.
She was nominated as the presidential candidate by her party CPN (UML).
With Bhandari’s election, for the first time in history, Nepal has females as the Speaker of the parliament and head of state. Onsari Ghartimagar was elected as Nepal’s first female Speaker about two weeks ago.
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