In a voting conducted at the CA building on Wednesday, Gharti secured 484 votes in her favour while four lawmakers from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and one Nepal Rastriya Party lameker voted against her. There were 489 lawmakers present during the voting.

Gharti and Anuradha Thapa Magar of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party had filed their candidacies for the post on Tuesday. Magar, however, did not take part in the voting process.

UCPN (Maoist) leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara had proposed Gharti's candidacy and Nepali Congress lawmaker Ananda Prasad Dhungana seconded it.

Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Loktantrik had decided to support Onsari for the post.

Gharti was elected from Rolpa Constituency-2. Purna Kumari Subedi of the UCPN ( Maoist ) was the vice-chairperson in the first CA.