NC’s Koirala elected to HoR from Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East)-1

Madhyabindu : Nepali Congress leader Shashanka Koirala has won the election to the member of the House of Representatives from Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta East) constituency-1. This is Koirala’s fourth consecutive win.

Koirala, a common candidate of the alliance, garnered 27,126 votes while his closest rival of the CPN (UML), Krishna Prasad Poudel got 25,044 votes. According to the office of the Election Officer, Rajan Gautam of the Rastriya Swatantra Party received 23,301 votes.