Janamat Party chair CK Raut has maintained his lead with 13,759 votes in Saptari-2 as per the latest vote counting update.

Raut is followed by Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav with 6,951 votes while Jaya Prakash Thakur of Loktantrik Samajbadi Party has stood third garnering 2,857 votes as of 10:50am on Tuesday.

This is Raut’s first candidacy in the federal elections. Thakur, on the other hand, had garnered over 9,500 votes from the constituency as an independent candidate in the 2017 elections.