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Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party sweeps Bhaktapur municipality
Sunil Prajapati was reelected mayor with 29,252 votes and Rajani Joshi secured 29,759 votes to claim deputy mayor post.bookmark
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Published at : May 16, 2022
Updated at : May 16, 2022 14:00
Bhaktapur
Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party candidate Sunil Prajapati has been reelected as the mayor of Bhaktapur Municipality.
Prajapati secured 29,252 votes while his closest rival Ram Prasad Kasula of the Nepali Congress got 3,407 votes.
Likewise, Rajani Joshi of the same party was victorious with 29,759 votes for the deputy mayor position. Her closest rival CPN-UML’s Ranjana Kharbuja garnered 2,988 votes.
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