An all-party meeting held to settle the dispute decided to approve the vote if the plus area of the swastika sign is clear on the election symbol.
The ruling five parties had fielded their candidates for the local level forging an electoral alliance, but Budha and Chhantyal had objected to the electoral alliance, fielding themselves as chairperson and vice-chairpersons respectively.
Subedi garnered 3,200 votes to win in the local level election held on May 13. His nearest rival from Nepali Congress (NC) Bhade Buda Magar secured 2,544 votes. Budha Magar is also the outgoing Chairperson of the same municipality.
Reelection took place at center-2 (Dakneshowri Municipality in Saptari district), center-1 (each at Raskot and Pachaljharana Rural Municipalities in Kalikot) and center-2 (Jayaprithivi Municipality in Bajhang), according to the Election Commission. The EC said that security was tightened at the polling centers. Of the postponed election in various 85 polling centers, a date had been set for reelection in 19.
The EC has urged the federal as well as provincial governments to prioritise deploying the employees for the task of vote counting so that the task is completed in time.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving here tomorrow, leading an 11-member delegation in course of his official visit to Nepal. He will be arriving here at the invitation of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Maoist Center candidate for the Chairman of the RM, Rhishikeshav Budhamagar 'Sabin', secured 2,122 votes to get elected while his nearest rival Darjit Rokamagar, an independent candidate supported by the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), got 1505 votes.
In 2,092 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of seven persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Sunday.
Ayurved Hospital Naradevi, Bharatpur Hospital, Kanti Children's Hospital, TU Teaching Hospital, Paropakar Maternity and Gynecology Hospital (Thapathali), Seti provincial hospital, and Karnali provincial hospital in Surkhet are some of the hospitals which have decided to continue OPD services on Sundays by not implementing the two-day (Saturday and Sunday) public holiday provision as announced by the government.
Ganesh Khadka, Chief of Barah Dal Company, Rani Ban, said that the ballot boxes from three polling stations in Limi have been transported to the Rural Municipality center Yalwang by a NA Helicopter for counting.
Under the joint venture project between the NEA and the Indian Power Grid Corporation, a company will be established in India to do the construction work in the Indian side.
Independent candidate for the post of mayor in the local level election, Balendra Saha, continues to lead in the vote tally.
Nepali Congress Gulmi president Khil Dhwaj Panthi has been elected as the mayor of Resunga municipality of Gulmi district. The party has won the Mayor's post by getting 8,614 votes.
Independent candidate Nirmal Tandukar has been elected the chair of Lalitpur Metropolitan City Ward No. 1.
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LOSAPA) has registered its first victory in Matihani Municipality of Mahottari district.