Round eight
The eighth round of PM election also failed to elect a new prime minister on Sunday. Lone candidate Ram Chandra Poudel of NC secured only 116 votes in his favour out of 189 votes. Two lawmakers voted against him and 71 stayed neutral. UCPN (Maoist) and UML abstained from voting.

No EC campaign
Four Madhesi parties�" MJF, MJF (D), TMLP and Sadbhawana Party have decided to obstruct the ongoing Election Commission's campaign to update the electoral roll in all Tarai districts from Monday. The parties say that thousands of Tarai people would be deprived from their voting rights if citizenship certificate is made mandatory to acquire a voter card. The EC has been collecting finger prints and computerised pictures of voters in the list distributing new voter cards. It has made it clear that the ongoing drive to issue voter ID cards will not stop.

12th NC Convention
The 12th Nepali Congress  General Convention that elected 33 new faces, formally concluded on Monday. Gagan Thapa bagged the highest vote of all candidates contesting the 25 CWC seats allocated for open competition and 14 seats for under zonal category.  The convention elected Shushil Koirala as the party president, Prakash Man Singh as general secretary and Chitra Lekha Yadav as treasurer.