Most of the leaders who signed the writ petition filed in the court declaring the Congress Central Working Committee led by Gagan Thapa illegal have registered their candidacies by taking tickets with Thapa's signature.

Former acting president Purna Bahadur Khadka has only stated that he did not take the ticket on moral grounds.

President Sher Bahadur Deuba himself wanted to be a candidate under Thapa's signature. However, after Thapa and Vice President Bishwaprakash Sharma requested him to step away from active politics and assume the role of a guardian, Deuba's secretariat made the decision not to be a candidate public only after midnight on Monday.

After the Election Commission decided to update the Thapa-led Central Working Committee elected from the special general convention last Friday, leader Bimalendra Nidhi, one of the loudest voices calling for legal remedies and street protests, has registered his candidacy from Dhanusha-3 with a ticket signed by Thapa.

Another leader Mahendra Yadav is being nominated from Dhanusha-4 with a ticket. Similarly, former spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat has registered his candidacy from Nuwakot-1. Another leader, NP Savad, has filed his candidacy in Kanchanpur-2. Khadka had filed a case on Sunday with the signatures of 100 members of the previous Central Working Committee, calling the Thapa-led Central Working Committee illegal. Others who signed it have also taken tickets through the ballot box. Prakash Man Singh, Vijay Kumar Gachhadar and Shashank Koirala, among the former office bearers, did not get tickets. Similarly, former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has also been denied tickets. Former parliamentary party chief whip Shyam Ghimire is also among those who were denied tickets. However, he has said that he did not sign the writ. Khadka wrote on social media this morning that he did not take the ticket, saying that being a candidate from the ticket issued by the signature of the Central Working Committee chairman, which is said to be illegal, would be against his lifelong political values, beliefs and moral stance.

‘I myself have filed a case in the Supreme Court on 2082 Magh 4 against the decision of the Election Commission regarding the Nepali Congress Party on 2082 Magh 2082, which is against the constitution, the Act on Political Parties and the statute of the Nepali Congress, and since it is my claim that the working committee elected from the illegal special general convention will automatically be illegal,’ Khadka wrote on Facebook, ‘As running for office on a ticket issued by their decision and signature would be contrary to my lifelong political values ​​and moral stance, I have decided not to run for the House of Representatives election this time despite the love, trust and confidence of my party friends and the general voters towards me.’