Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav elected as the third Vice President of Nepal

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Category : International Published on: March 20 2023

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Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav of the Janata Samajbadi Party has been elected as the new Vice President of Nepal.
Out of the total 52,628 weighted votes, Ram Sahay secured 30,328 while Asta Laxmi Shakya of the CPN-UML received 16,328 and Mamata Jha of the Janamat Party got 2,537 in an election held on Friday.
Ram Sahaya Yadav is a Nepalese politician and former Nepalese Minister of Forests and Environment.
Yadav joined the Nepal Sadbhawana Party in 1990 to begin his political career.
He played a key role in the first Madhesh Movement and served as the organization's initial general secretary (2007).
Three vice presidential elections have been place since the nation switched to a federal democratic republic in 2008.
The vice president has a five-year term in office.