ITAHARI: The counting of votes in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City, disrupted for the past 34 hours, has not been resumed yet.

The vote counting was halted from July 3 after Man Bahadur Karki and Dhan Bahadur Rai who were involved in counting the votes of the sub-metropolis ward number 9 were found adding 50 votes received by CPN Maoist Centre to CPN-UML side.

Although a meeting was held among political parties time and again on Tuesday to resume the vote count, it was to no avail. A meeting has been called today as well  to resume the vote counting.

As per the latest update of vote counting of Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City, CPN UML mayoral candidate, Dwariklal Chaudhary, has received 13,998 votes and deputy-mayor candidate of the same party, Lamxi Gautam, has got 12,986 votes.

Similarly, Nepali Congress mayoral and deputy mayoral candidates, Rohit Prasain, and Bimala Dhakal, have received 12,617  and 11,659 votes respectively.