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Nepali Congress President Gagan Thapa Defeated in Parliamentary Elections

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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…