Kathmandu, Dec. 18 -- Former Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli won the third consecutive term as the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) party chairman through voting in the 11th general convention of the party.

Oli got a total of 1663 votes while his arch rival got 564 votes.

This comes after the polling in the ongoing general convention of the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) general convention was completed, with turnout recorded at 98.40 per cent.

The voting, which commenced on Wednesday morning at around 9:15 AM (local time) continued till 6 AM (local time) on Thursday, as per the party's central election commission.

As per the commission a total of 2,227 convention delega...