May 19 was considered the last day for the past local level people's representatives to remain in their posts and the election was held with the goal of completing the vote-counting by that date.
Newly elected local level members have started assuming their offices from today as the Election Commission has said that the term of those elected in 2017 ended on May 19, 2022.
It may be noted that a woman via a series of TikTok videos a few days ago claimed that a beauty pageant organiser drugged her and raped her for six months.
Mahatara registered her victory by receiving 16,520 votes while her closest rival Bhojraj Sitaula of the Nepali Congress got 12,762 votes.
RPP's Thapa was the common candidate from the six-party alliance in Damak municipality.
District judge Bishnu Prasad Awasthi, as per the Local Government Operation Act 2017, Section 9 (2), administered the oath of office to the newly elected leadership of the local levels at the office of the chief returning office on Friday.
Ajaya Thapa of the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has been elected the mayor and Shiva Kumari Tharu of the CPN (UML) deputy mayor of Shivaraj municipality in Kapilbastu district.
President Joe Biden will open his trip to Asia with a focus on the U.S. tech sector, touring a Samsung computer chip plant on Friday that will serve as a model for a $17 billion semiconductor factory that the Korean electronics company is building outside Austin, Texas.
Bhimraj Yadav has been elected by securing 9,624 against 4,807 by outgoing mayor Shambhu Prasad Yadav.
Nepali Congress' candidate Upendra Karki has won the post of mayor of Kageshwori municipality by a margin of more than 3,000 votes in the local election held on May 13. He bagged 11,322 votes as against the 8,263 votes polled by his closest contender Ram Sharan Dhungana of the CPN (UML), Election Officer Sharada Raut said.
A meeting of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers of Bagmati Province held today decided to recommend the office the Province Chief to call budget session of Bagmati province Assembly on May 22.
Rajendra Sutihar, who was recently elected ward member of Rajgadh Rural Municipality-5 in Saptari district, passed away today. The 69-year-old newly elected people's representative was found dead while he was sleeping, informed ward chairperson Devendra Sah.
The candidates from the ruling five-party alliance have won the local election in Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City.
Ram Sharan Bhandari of the Nepali Congress, the common candidate from the ruling five-party alliance, has registered his victory to the post of mayor of Panauti municipality in Kavrepalanchowk district.
Nepali Congress (NC) candidates have been elected mayor and deputy mayor of Kolhabi Municipality in Bara district.