Madhyapur Thimi, May 18 (RSS): Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Surendra Shrestha registered his win as a mayor of Madhyapur Thimi municipality. Shrestha defeated CPN-UML candidate Madan Sundar Shrestha by a vote difference of 4,063.
NC candidate Surendra received
15,098 votes while his close contender Madan Sundar got 11,035 votes.
It may be noted that Madan Sundar
was elected the mayor of Madhyapur Thimi in earlier local level election in
2017.
CPN (Maoist Centre) candidate from
ruling alliance Bijaya Krishna Shrestha registered his victory as the deputy
mayor with 12,102 votes. His arch-rival Uttara Nepal of CPN-UML got 8,963
votes.
NC has won wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and
9 in Madhyapur Thimi.