Myagdi, May 16 (RSS) : Nepali Congress (NC candidates have emerged victorious as the chairperson and vice-chairperson of Raghuganga Rural Municipality in Myagdi district.
NC candidate Bhakta Bahadur
Bhandari secured 4,038 votes to become the chairperson while vice-chairperson
candidate from the same party Prem Kumari Pun received 3,364 votes, shared
Assistant Election Officer Amrit Subedi. With this win, Bhandari ascended
to the post for the second term.
Bhandari's close contender Prem
Bahadur Karki from CPN-UML got 3,289 whereas Meena BK from CPN (Maoist Centre)
received 995 in the race for chairperson.
Yamkumari Garbuja from CPN-UML
secured 3,245 votes while Rim Bahadur Katuwal of Maoist Centre got 1,783 votes
as vice-chairperson.
NC has won five wards whereas UML
secured the win in three wards in the rural municipality where voters' turnout was
65 per cent out of a total of 13,947 votes.
Vote counting of two out of six
local levels and 30 wards has so far concluded in the district.
UML's Beg Prasad Garbuja and Laxmi
Devi Pun have been elected as chairperson and vice-chairperson of Malika Rural
Municipality.
According to the vote count results
of 30 wards, UML has established its victory in 13 wards, NC in 12 wards and
Maoist Centre in four wards. Vote count results of 15 wards and four local
levels have yet to come.