SIRAHA, May 15: Mahesh Kumar Yadav (Pintu) of Janata Samajbadi Party has won the ward chairmanship of Siraha Municipality ward no. 1 by a margin of 100 votes.
Yadav received 511 votes while his nearest rival Rajdev Yadav of the Nepali Congress polled 411 votes.
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In the local level election held 2017, he had won the ward chairmanship from the Nepali Congress.
This time, he left the Nepal Congress after being denied a ticket from the NC and became the ward chairman candidate from JSP Nepal.
