Jhapa: General Secretary of the Nepali Congress and alliance candidate Bishwa Prakash Sharma has won the election to member of the House of Representatives from constituency no 1 of Jhapa district.
He won with wide margin of 14,275 votes. Sharma collected 39,624 votes while his nearest contender Agni Kharel of CPN UML got 25, 349 votes, according to election officer Tanka Bahadur Mahat.
Kharel is UML standing committee member, and close to Chairman KP Sharma Oli.
