Close Contest in Okhaldhunga House of Representatives Vote Count; Nepali Congress Leads by Narrow Margin

Okhaldhunga. A tight competition is evident between the Nepali Congress and the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the vote counting for the House of Representatives election in Okhaldhunga. There is a difference of only 17 votes between the Congress candidate Kumar Luitel and the RSP candidate Bishwaraj Pokharel. Luitel is ahead by 17 votes.While Luitel is in the lead having secured 13,852 votes, the RSP candidate Pokharel is trailing with 13,835 votes.The third-placed candidate from the Nepal Communist Party, Ambir Babu Gurung, has received 11,194 votes, while the CPN-UML candidate Asmita Thapa has secured 10,566 votes.Uddhav Kumar Rai of the...