Two persons have filed their candidacies for the National Assembly chair’s position.

Narayan Dahal of the CPN (Maoist Center) on behalf of the ruling coalition and Yuvaraj Sharma of the Nepali Congress filed their nominations for the election to the post of upper house chair to be held on Tuesday.

An office-bearer meeting of Maoist Center held on Sunday decided to pick Dahal as a candidate for the position. He is the brother of Prime Minister and Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Dahal was nominated as a member of the National Assembly by the President on the recommendation of the government in 2021.

With the formation of a new alliance, an agreement was reached among CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Rastriya Swatantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane and Janata Samajbadi Party Chairman Upendra Yadav to support the candidate of Maoist Center for National Assembly chair and UML for vice-chair.

Sharma (74) is a resident of Banke.

Sharma, who worked as the president of Banke district in 1988, was the vice-president of the Nepal Students Union, student wing of the Nepali Congress, when party President Sher Bahadur Deuba was the president of the NSU in 1971.

The position remained vacant after Ganesh Timilsina retired after completing his six-year tenure on March 3.