{"id":43571,"date":"2026-03-06T19:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43571"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:30:32","slug":"prachanda-wins-big-in-rukum-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/prachanda-wins-big-in-rukum-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Prachanda Wins Big in Rukum East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 6: Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda and chair of the Communist Party of Nepal, has been elected to the House of Representatives from Rukum East District.<\/p>\n<p>Prachanda secured a commanding 10,240 votes, outpacing his rivals by a wide margin. Lilamani Gautam of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) received 3,462 votes, while Kushum Devi Thapa of the Nepali Congress garnered 3,081 votes, the Election Officer\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout in Rukum East reached 19,188, reflecting strong participation in the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 6: Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as Prachanda and chair of the Communist Party of Nepal, has been elected to the House of Representatives from Rukum East District. Prachanda secured a commanding 10,240 votes, outpacing his rivals by a wide margin. Lilamani Gautam of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) received 3,462 votes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43572,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43571\/revisions\/43572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}