KATHMANDU, May 16: Candidate of Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party for the post of mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality, Sunil Prajapathi, has been re-elected as the mayor of the municipality.
Prajapath was elected mayor after garnering 29,200 votes while his nearest contender, Ram Prasad Kasula of Nepali Congress got only 3,667 votes.
Likewise, the candidate of the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party for the post of deputy mayor Rajani Joshi has also been elected deputy mayor of the municipality. She was elected to the post with 29,695 votes while the candidate of CPN-UML in the second position, Ranjana Kharbuja, collected only 2,724 votes.
KATHMANDU, April 25: Renu Dahal, leader and outgoing mayor of Bharatpur metropolis, and Chitrasen Adhikari, Nepali Congress leader, filed their nominations for Bharatpur Metropolitan City’s mayor and deputy mayor.
KATHMANDU, March 9: Mayor and deputy mayor of Rangeli Municipality of Morang district joined the main opposition party, CPN-UML, on Wednesday.
Amid an event organized in the municipality, Chairman of UML, KP Sharma Oli, welcomed both the mayor, Dilip Kumar Agrawal and deputy mayor Keshav Kumar Khanal to the party.
According to Rishikesh Pokhrel, UML Chair of Morang, along with Agrawal and Khanal, as many as 4,710 people joined UML.
Earlier, Agrawal and Khanal were elected mayor and deputy mayor representing the CPN (Maoist Center).