INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BANEPA, MAY 19Candidates of the ruling five-party alliance have won the local level
election in Banepa and Namobuddha municipalities of Kavrepalanchowk district.
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Shanti Ratna Shakya of the Nepali Congress, the common candidate of the
five-party ruling alliance, has been elected mayor of Banepa Municipality in the local level election held on May 13.
He
secured 13,793 votes.His nearest rival Ratnakush Ranjitkar of the CPN-UML bagged 11,835.Bimala Sapkota Dahal of the CPN-UML won the election
for deputy mayor post in Banepa Municipality.She secured 11,992 votes and her closest rival Raghubar Chau Pradhan of the CPN (Unified
Socialist), the common candidate of the ruling alliance, got 10,515 votes.Kunsang Lama of the Nepali Congress, a common candidate of the
ruling alliance, has been elected the mayor of Namobuddha Municipality by securing 11,211 votes.His closest rival Rajan Bhurtel of the
CPN-UML bagged 5,822 votes.Similarly, the ruling alliance's candidate Ratna Bahadur Lama of the CPN-Maoist Centre has been elected deputy
mayor.He secured 8,187 votes while his nearest rival Samjhana Lama of the UML got 6,543 votes.A version of this article appears in the print
on May 20, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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