BHAKTAPUR, May 16: Sunil Prajapati of Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party (NWPP) has been elected as Mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality with a huge margin of votes. According to the final results, Prajapati got 29,200 votes while his nearest rival Ram Prasad Kasula of the Nepali Congress (NC) was limited to 3352 votes.
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Similarly, Rajni Joshi of Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party has been elected as Deputy Mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality with 29,695 votes. Her nearest rival Ranjana Kharbuja of CPN-UML got 2,784 votes.
The NWPP has made a ‘clean sweep’ in the post of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Ward Chairpersons and members in Bhaktapur municipality. The bail amount of most candidates of opposition parties has been seized.
