KARNALI, Dec 5: Lalit Jung Shahi has been elected the President of the Nepali Congress (NC) Karnali Province Committee by defeating his contender Bhupendra Jung Shahi with a margin of 105 votes.
In the voting held Saturday, Dangi got 422 votes while his rival Bhupendra Jung got 317 votes, according to the election committee.
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Another candidate for the same post, Motiraj Bam, received just seven votes. Of the total 771 votes, 754 voters cast their vote while eight votes were declared invalid.
President-elect Lalit Jung was the member of second Constituent Assembly (CA).
Member of the election committee Bibash Kumar Basnet said that counting of the votes for other posts is ongoing.
