Rabi Lamichhane’s Rastriya Swatantra Party gives a blow to biggies as vote count begins

Kathmandu, November 21

As officials have begun the vote count of the federal and provincial elections held on Sunday, the Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has given a blow to major parties in some significant constituencies.

Exit polls show Lamichhane will win the Chitwan 2 constituency with a wide margin. In Kathmandu 7, his party’s Ganesh Parajuli is leading the count. The party is expected to have impressed the voters in Kathmandu’s constituencies 2, 6 and 8 also. In Kaski, the situation is similar as RSP’s Madhav Prasad Kandel is leading UML’s Bidya Bhattarai.

Meanwhile, analysts expect the party will gain a lot of votes in the proportional representation elections, probably the third after the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML.

In the rest of the places, candidates of the ruling Nepali Congress-led and the opposition CPN-UML-led alliances are ahead of other candidates.

In Saptari 2, Janamat Party’s CK Raut is leading Rastriya Janata Party’s Upendra Yadav.

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