Politics
Gagan Thapa loses seat to RSP’s Amresh Kumar Singh in Sarlahi-4
Singh wins by 12,857 votes, ending Thapa’s 18-year parliamentary run.Post Report
Nepali Congress president Gagan Thapa has lost the House of Representatives election from Sarlahi-4 to Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Amresh Kumar Singh, ending his 18-year parliamentary career.
Final results announced on Sunday showed Singh securing 35,688 votes against Thapa’s 22,831, a margin of 12,857 votes.
Thapa entered parliament in 2008 through the proportional representation system and later won three consecutive elections from Kathmandu-4.
He was elected Congress president in January and had been projected by the party as a potential future prime minister.
Singh, born in Sarlahi, holds a PhD in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.
He began his political career through Madhesh-based movements and was elected from Sarlahi-4 in the 2013 and 2017 parliamentary elections. After being denied a Nepali Congress ticket in the 2022 polls, he ran as an independent and won the seat.




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