NC's Rana wins in Palpa-1
NC candidate Sandeep Rana has won the House of Representatives election in Palpa Constituency No. 1.
Rana secured 18,336 votes, defeating UML candidate Narayan Prasad Acharya by 1,517 votes. Acharya received 16,819 votes, while Bimal Pant of the RSP received 14,333 votes.
The last Congress victory in Palpa-1 was in 1992 when Kaluram Rana won after the 1989 people’s movement. Since then, UML candidates had been winning the seat until this election.
RSP's Chaudhary elected from Saptari-3
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate Amar Kanta Chaudhary has been elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Saptari 3.
According to Election Officer Sitaram Acharya, he has received 32,875 votes.
Upendra Yadav of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal has received 15,239 votes while Dinesh Kumar Yadav of the Nepali Congress has received 8,428 votes.
RSP candidates elected in both constituencies of Kavre
Under the House of Representatives elections held on Thursday, candidates of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) have been elected in both constituencies of Kavrepalanchok district.
From Kavrepalanchok-1, Madhu Kumar Chaulagai has won with 29,618 votes. His closest competitor, Gunaraj Moktan of Nepali Congress, received 19,166 votes.
Similarly, Dinanath Gautam of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) received 14,184 votes while Amit Lama of the CPN-UML got 13,814 votes.
Likewise, from Kavrepalanchok-2, RSP candidate Badan Kumar Bhandari was elected with a margin of 35,476 votes.
Bhandari garnered 53,344 votes while his competitor, Madhu Prasad Acharya of Nepali Congress, received 17,868 votes.
Similarly, in this area, Ashok Byanju of UML received 13,940 votes and Basundhara Humagain of NCP got 8,107 votes.
NC's Giri elected HoR member from Bajura
Nepali Congress candidate Janak Raj Giri has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Bajura, securing 17,173 votes.
Chief Election Officer Sanjeev Pokharel said that Giri's closest competitor, Lal Bahadur Thapa, the candidate of the CPN-UML, received 16,633 votes.
According to Chief Election Officer Pokharel, Hemraj Thapa of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) received 6,035 votes, Prakash Bahadur Shah of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) received 3,428 votes, Keshar Bahadur Shahi of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) received 352 votes, and Bhupendra BK of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) received 333 votes.
Out of 87,861 registered voters in the district which is a single electoral constituency, 45,390 votes were cast. According to the Office of the Chief Election Officer of Bajura, 43,896 votes were valid when counted.
Gautam of RSP wins in Makwanpur-1
Prakash Gautam of the RSP has won by more than double the votes in the House of Representatives constituency number-1 of Makawanpur by securing 36,033 votes.
He defeated Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya Dina of the Nepali Congress. Dina secured 14,038 votes. Rameshwor Rana of the CPN-UML, who came third in the race, secured 12,783 votes.
Deepak Bahadur Singh of the RPP, who was also the winner of the previous election, slipped to sixth place and settled for 4,574 votes. Similarly, Vijay Gautam of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) got 10,788 votes, Surendra Lama of the Ujjayaalo Nepal Party got 10,205 votes, and Bidya Shrestha of the Shram Sanskriti Party got 1,024 votes.
Dina has lost a direct election for the fifth time. She had entered parliament through proportional representation in the second Constituent Assembly election in 2014. NCP's Gautam contested the election for the first time.
Jha of RSP wins Mahottari-3
Ujjwal Kumar Jha of RSP has won in Mahottari Constituency No. 3. He defeated Mohammad Rizwan of the Nepal Federal Socialist Party by a wide margin of 26,482 votes. Jha got 32,451 votes while Rizwan got only 5,969 votes.
Independent candidate Ram Adhar Kapar got 4,790 votes while Bajrang Nepali of the Nepali Congress got 4,342 votes.
Inquiry Commission submits report on GenZ movement to government
The Inquiry Commission formed to investigate the incidents that occurred during the GenZ movement on September 8 and 9 submitted its report to the government on Sunday.
A team of the Commission reached Singha Durbar this morning and handed over the report to Prime Minister Sushila Karki.
The interim government had formed a commission of inquiry on September 21 under the headship of former Judge Gauri Bahadur Karki to investigate the incidents that unfolded during the Gen Z movement and allegations of excessive use of force by state authorities.
Initially, the Commission was granted a three-month deadline to submit the report. However, the government extended the deadline after the Commission failed to complete the investigation within the stipulated time.
AIG Bigyan Raj Sharma and Bishweshwor Prasad Bhandari were the members of the Commission.
A total of 74 people lost their lives in the protests.
During the protests, various public institutions, including Singha Durbar, the country's administrative center and the Supreme Court, were vandalized and set on fire.
RSP’s Kharel elected HoR member from Lalitpur-2
Jagadish Kharel of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won the election to the Member of House of Representatives (HoR) by a large margin of votes from Lalitpur 2.
According to Lalitpur 2 Election Officer Samjana Simkhada Pudasaini, Kharel has won by securing 39,941 votes.
His closest competitor, Prem Krishna Maharjan of the Nepali Congress, received 7,420 votes.
Similarly, Ujiyalo Nepal Party candidate Rajaram Tandukar got 5,547 votes and CPN-UML candidate Prem Bahadur Maharjan received 4,536 votes.
In Lalitpur-2, which has a total of 89,082 voters, 61,975, including 31,035 women and 30,940 men, had voted. There were 23 candidates from political parties and also independents in the election race in this constituency.
