RSP Bohara leads in Kanchanpur-2
RSP candidate Deepak Bohara is leading by a wide margin in Kanchanpur-2 after the latest vote count.
Bohara has secured 13,305 votes, while Nepali Congress candidate NP Saud has received 4,064 votes and UML’s Bachan Bahadur Singh 3,145 votes.
So far 25,760 votes have been counted, with Bohara leading Saud by 9,241 votes.
Rajunath Pandey wins Kathmandu-3
RSP candidate Rajunath Pandey has won the election from Kathmandu Constituency No. 3.
Pandey secured 18,757 votes to defeat Ujjalo Nepal Chairperson Kulman Ghising, who received 11,171 votes.
Nepali Congress candidate Ramesh Aryal got 6,000 votes, while CPN-UML’s Rameshwor Phuyal received 3,816 votes.
NC's Gurung wins from Manang
Nepali Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung from Manang district has won in the House of Representatives election held on Thursday. Gurung collected 2,415 votes to emerge victorious.
Chief election officer in the district Ram Prasad Paudel informed that Gurung, who had been leading the vote count from the very beginning, was announced victorious.
His nearest rival from the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), Yashoda Subedi Gurung, collected 454 votes. Similarly, Ram Bahadur Gurung (Nawin) of the Mangal National Organization got 9 votes.
Manang, having a single constituency, recorded 54.80 percent voter turnout. There were a total 7,000 voters listed for the election.
District election officer Jivan Kunwar said the number of invalid votes was 45.
RSP's Birajbhakta Shrestha secures victory from Kathmandu-8
Birajbhakta Shrestha of Rastriya Swatantra Party has been declared victorious. He collected 24,592 votes.
Shrestha's nearest rival Suman Sayami of the Nepali Communist Party received 3,217 votes. Nepali Congress' Sapana Rajbhandari is behind with 2,835 votes.
Shrestha, who had become the Minister for Youth and Sports, is a central secretariat member of RSP. It is the second time he got elected to the House of Representatives from the same constituency. Earlier, he was elected HoR member in 2079BS.
RSP leader Shrestha is a graduate in commerce. He is known for preservation of culture, language and Guthi tradition. He has forwarded the development agenda like carbon trading and forest conservation.
