Kathmandu, May 21: All 12 local-levels in Nuwakot have elected a new political leadership through the first-round of local-level election held on May 14.
The final tally of vote count of all local-levels read that the Nepali Congress has emerged victorious in seven levels while the CPN (UML) clinched chief posts in three levels and the CPN (Maoist Centre) in remaining two.
With Rajendra Raman Khanal, a candidate for the Mayor from the CPN (UML) at the Belkotgadhi Municipality becoming victorious in the election, vote counts in all levels got completed. Khanal garnered 6,643 votes against his nearest competitor Jagat Bahadur Gurung from the CPN (MC) who obtained 6,351 votes.
Kabita Dhungana from the CPN (MC), a candidate for the post of Deputy Mayor has secured 6,666 votes to win the election against her nearest competitor Rupa Sapkota from the CPN (UML). Sapkota’s vote count is 6,460, according to Assistant Chief Election Officer Shankar Raj Pathak.
The NC has secured the posts of Chief in seven rural municipalities– Meghang, Kispang, Suryagadhi, Likhu, Tadi, Dupcheshwor and Shivapuri.
Likewise, the UML earlier had won the election for the mayoral and deputy mayoral posts at Bidur Municipality and Tarkeshwor Rural Municipality.
The CPN (MC) secured the posts of mayor and deputy mayor at Kakani Rural Municipality and the party has emerged victorious ( for the post of Chief) in the Panchakanya Rural Municipality while the seat of the deputy mayor is won by the NC.
Newly elected ward member dies of heart attack
A report from Nuwakot states that Thakur Prasad Lamichanne who had won the election for the post of a ward member under the CPN (UML) seat at Likhu Rural Municipality-1 has died. Lamichhane, 45, collapsed all of a sudden while attending a rally organised after the victory of party candidates and was rushed to the District Hospital, Trishuli where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Doctors said that he had died of a heart attack. RSS
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