The daughter of Nepal’s former Prime Minister Prachanda on Sunday won the mayoral election of Bharatpur city.
Renu Dahal, who secured 43,127 votes, defeated her nearest rival — CPN-UMl’s Devi Prasad Gyawali — by 203 votes.
Gyawali got 42,924 votes and gave a tough fight to the daughter of CPN-Maoist Centre’s chief.
Re-polling was conducted in Ward number 19 as per the court’s verdict as counting of votes of Bharatpur Metropolis, under the second phase of local-level election, was put off after some people vandalised the ballot box.
Nepali Congress’ Parvati Shah won the post of Deputy Mayor, beating her rival Divya Sharma Acharya of CPN-UMl.
The ruling parties, Nepali Congress and CPN-Maoist Centre, had electoral alliance against CPN-UMl in Bharatpur.