Kathmandu, May 14 (RSS): Harkanarayan Joshi of Nepali
Congress has been elected the chair of ward no. 6 of Laljhadi rural
municipality.
According to the Office of the Returning
Officer, Joshi defeated his nearest rival Phularam Chaudhary of the CPN (Maoist
Center) by a margin of 115 votes. Joshi got 464 votes while Chaudhary got 349
votes and UML candidate Jit Bahadur Chaudhary got 266 votes.
Counting of votes has started from a late at night
in some municipalities of Kanchanpur under the local level election. Counting
has started in Laljhadi, Belauri, Beldandi and Dodhara-Chandni.