Chitwan, March 7: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Chairperson Rabi Lamichhane has won the House of Representatives (HoR) Member election from Chitwan Constituency No. 2. He secured 54,402 votes.
His closest contender, Nepali Congress candidate Meena Kumari Kharel has received 14,564 votes. Similarly, Asmin Ghimire of the CPN (UML) received 6,992 votes, while Pratap Gurung of the Nepali Communist Party received 4,469 votes, according to Chief Election Officer Kedar Nath Paudel.
Lamichhane had bagged 54,176 votes in the by-election held in 2080 BS. Similarly, at that time, the candidate from the Nepali Congress received 11,214 votes and the candidate from UML received 10,936 votes.
There were a total of 137,152 voters in this electoral constituency in the latest HoR election, and 87,221 votes were cast. A total of 23 candidates, including those of various political parties and independents were in the fray from this constituency.
