KATHMANDU: CPN-UML Vice Chairman and lawmaker Subash Nemwang has passed away.

Nemwang’s body will be kept at the party office today and tomorrow (Tuesday and Wednesday) for his last tribute.

His last rites will be held tomorrow afternoon only.

According to him, Nemwang’s body is now being taken to the party office in Chaisal, Lalitpur at 7 o’clock.

Nemwang, who was also the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, was an elected MP from Ilam-2.

The hospital said that he died of a heart attack.

He was taken to Gangalal Hospital in the night after he suffered a heart attack.

Doctors declared him dead on arrival at the hospital.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli, Speaker Devraj Ghimire, National Assembly Chairperson Ganesh Timilsina and other parties’ leaders had reached the hospital.

Nemwang was born on 11 March 1953. He was the first elected Free Students Union President of Mahendra Ratna Campus in Ilam and also elected as general secretary of Nepal Bar Association in 1987.

In February 2023, he was chosen as a candidate in Nepal’s presidential election in 2023 from CPN-UML but lost to Ram Chandra Paudel of Nepali Congress.

Nemwang emerged victorious from Ilam-2 in all elections held after the restoration of democracy in 1990.

He won both legislative elections of 1991 and 1999, and went on to hold key posts like the chairman of Public Accounts Committee and chairman of the Constituent Assembly.