Nepali Congress has directed to withdraw those who have registered rebel candidacies against the party’s candidates.

Congress chief secretary Krishna Prasad Poudel issued a statement on Friday instructing all the rebel candidates to withdraw their nomination and make the party’s official candidate victorious.

It is mentioned in the press release that if the candidates did not withdraw the nomination within the stipulated date and time, the party membership of the rebel candidate, its proponent and supporter will be terminated in accordance with Article 4 (13) (c) of the Nepali Congress Constitution, 2017 (with amendment).