Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepali Congress President Gagan Thapa suffered a bitter defeat at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party in this year’s parliamentary elections.The party’s prime ministerial candidate, Thapa, secured 22,831 votes in the polls held in Sarlahi-4 in Madhesh Province, against 35,688 votes polled by Singh, adding to the long list of heavyweight leaders to suffer a similar fate.Elected as president of the party just in January this yea…
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Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Most of the top leaders of traditional political parties are facing a tough contest in the parliamentary elections, with candidates from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) taking significant leads in two-thirds of the seats under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system. In Nepal’s 275-member House of Representatives, 165 members are elected through the FPTP system, while 110 seats are filled through the proportional representation system. According to the latest data fr…
Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Former Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has been elected from Rukum East-1 to the House of Representatives, becoming one of the few top leaders from traditional political parties to secure a win in the elections to the House of Representatives held on Thursday. He secured 10,240 votes to win the election. His closest competitor, Lilamani Gautam of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), secured 3,462 votes, according to th…