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RSP’s Rajiv Khatri wins Bhaktapur-2
Khatri defeats UML Secretary Mahesh Basnet by a wide margin.
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Published at : March 7, 2026
Updated at : March 7, 2026 14:02
Bhaktapur
Rajiv Khatri of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has been elected to the House of Representatives from Bhaktapur-2.
Khatri secured 42,334 votes to defeat his nearest rival, Mahesh Basnet of the CPN-UML, who received 10,996 votes.
Basnet is also a secretary of the UML.
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