NC secures Chair, Vice Chair posts in Tamankhola Rural Municipality
Both of them were outside the electoral alliance.
GALKOT: MAY. 15 – Nepali Congress candidates for both the chair and vice-chair of Tamankhola Rural Municipality of Baglung district have been elected to the posts.
Joklal Budha was elected the chair collecting 2,707 votes while Hira Kumari Chhantyal was elected to vice-chair collecting 2,719 votes.
Both of them were outside the electoral alliance. It is the second stint of Joklal Budha.
The ruling five parties had fielded their candidates for the local level forgin electoral alliance, but Budha and Chhantyal had objected to the electoral alliance, fielding themselves as chair and vice-chairs respectively.
Nearest rival of Budha, Dev Bahadur Pun representing the CPN Maoist Centre from the electoral alliance got only 1,995 votes.
Similarly, Nishu Rasaili, the nearest rival of Chhantyal was behind 810 votes, thereby losing the vice-chair post.
