HETAUDA: Defeating the outgoing Home Minister and CPN (UML) candidate Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, Dr. Khimlal Devkota has won the National Assembly seat. He received 5,088 votes while Thapa got 4,014 votes.
Devkota had the support of the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and the Madhav Kumar Nepal faction of the CPN (UML). But Devkota have won the election as an independent candidate.
Devkota received 58 votes, Thapa 45 votes and Krishna Bahadur Tamang of Nepal Worker and Peasant’s Party received 2 votes out of 105 members of the Bagmati Provincial Assembly.
Similarly, Devkota received 128 votes, Thapa 103 votes and Tamang 2 votes out of 233 people including local level chiefs and deputy chiefs of Bagmati Province.
In the National Assembly election, the local level people’s representatives have 18 votes and the state assembly members have 48 votes.
Dr Devkota is the expert on federalism, and had already served as Vice Chairman of Planning Commission at the Bagmati Province.
