NUWAKOT, Nov 26: Arjun Narsingh KC of the Nepali Congress (NC) has won the election to the member of the House of Representatives from the Nuwakot electoral constituency-2.
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KC, a common candidate of the five-party ruling alliance, secured 28,107 votes against 16,477 by Rastriya Swatantra Party’s Suman Bikram Pandey, according to Chief Election Officer Madan Bahadur Dhami.
Likewise, CPN-UML’s Narayan Prasad Khatiwada finished with 15,561 votes. In the previous 2017 general elections, KC was defeated by Khatiwada by a margin of 10,000 and this time, the NC candidate led the final counts tally by 12,564 against the UML candidate.
