BIRGUNJ, MAY 18

Twenty-one-year-old Basistha Kumar Gupta has been elected chairperson of Kalikamai Rural Municipality of Parsa district. He is the youngest candidate to be elected in the district.

Gupta from Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal won the election by a margin of 117 votes against his nearest rival Ajay Patel of Nepali Congress. However, Nepali Congress candidate Rajmati Devi Baraini has been elected Vice-chairperson with the margin of 111 votes. Her nearest rival was Sahani Khatun from Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal.

The JSP-N leaders secured victory at three wards in the rural municipality while UML and NC won in one each.

Lal Bahadur Shrestha of UML became chairperson of Thori Rural Municipality and Gokuli Kumari Regmi from the same party became vice-chairperson. Shrestha and Regmi defeated Maoist Centre's candidates. NC candidate Dinesh Kumari Chaudhari Tharu has been elected chairperson of Paterwasugauli Rural Municipality with 5,144 votes. Leader of the same party Mamata Mahato became vice-chairperson by receiving 4,444 votes.

CPN UML candidates Gokarna Pathak and Puja Chaudhary have been elected chairperson and vice-chairperson of Parsagadhi Municipality respectively. Both of them defeated NC candidates.

JSP-N candidate Mahan Chauhan and NC candidate Mandu Devi have been elected chairperson and vice-chairperson of Dhowani Rural Municipality respectively.

Likewise, NC candidates Anoj Chaudhari and Rekha Chaudhari have been elected chairperson and vice-chairperson of Jirabhawani Rural Municipality respectively.

A version of this article appears in the print on May 19, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.