HETAUDA, NOVEMBER 24
Vote count in Makawanpur has concluded, with one win each for the CPN-UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in the House of Representatives election. In Constituency-2, UML youth leader Mahesh Bartaula eked out victory against his one-time senior party leader Birodh Khatiwada, now a CPN (Unified Socialist) leader from whom he had also received training while he was in the UML. Bartaula received 34,916 votes against Khatiwada's 30,396 votes.
Rastriya Swatantra Party's Bharat Parajuli got 12,039 votes. Khatiwada had won parliamentary elections four times before. In Makawanpur-2, RPP's Deepak Singh upset his rivals NC deputy general secretary Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya Dina and UML's candidate Kamal Thapa, who is also the chairperson of Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal. Singh received 27,816 votes defeating his closest rival Dina, who bagged 25,423 votes.
Thapa, who had opened a new party after leaving RPP and had contested with the UML election symbol, got 25,420 votes. In the provincial election, the ruling coalition's Prem Bahadur Pulami and UML's Ekalal Shrestha won from Constituency-1A and B respectively.
Coalition candidates Kumari Moktan of CPN-MC and Indra Bahadur Baniyan of NC have won PA seats from Constituency-2 A and B.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
