By Raju Lamechane, West-Rukum, May 15: CPN (Maoist Center) candidates have been elected the Ward Chair in four wards while Nepali Congress candidates have been elected the Ward Chair in two wards of the Sanibheri Rural Municipality in West Rukum district.So far, the vote counting of 6 wards has been completed, according to the office of the returning officer. Maoist Center candidates got elected in Wards 1, 2, 3 and 6 while NC candidates got the victory in Wards 4 and 5.
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.
Shyam Bahadur Rana, information officer at the district election office, said that voting in Malika secondary school polling center of Kharpunath Rural Municipality-1 and the Kot secondary school polling center in Sarkegard Rural Municipality-7 continued till 10 pm.
Three people have been injured including an Election Officer, Krishna Prasad Acharya, in a clash between the coalition party and independent candidate vying for the post of ward chair, Pyari Lal Shahi at Mahadev Secondary Center, Chankheli Rural Municipality-2, Humla.
Shyam Prasad Bhandari, the CIAA spokesperson, said that the case has been filed against the chief administrative officer, engineer Mahesh Singh Kathayat, sub-engineer Hasta Bahadur Malla, user group chairperson Ram Maya Malla and Treasurer Ratnadevi Hamal.
In Rukum West, farmers are busy harvesting wheat while the local level election atmosphere is heating up. The political leaders have been asking for votes by reaching farmers' fields. Local level candidates along with their cadres who have been conducting door-to-door campaigns have reached the wheat fields in the district.
Three people were killed in separate incidents in the district. Two including a driver are the victims of an excavator accident that occurred today at Bagchaur municipality-6, police said.
Ein Bahadur Malla, Deputy Inspector of Police (DSP) and chief at the Area Police Office in Kohalpur, said that the fire caught many houses as it was a time of windy weather and that there was no fire engine at Raptisonari.
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