{"id":43620,"date":"2026-03-07T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43620"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:06:36","slug":"balen-shah-defeats-uml-chair-kp-sharma-oli-in-jhapa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/balen-shah-defeats-uml-chair-kp-sharma-oli-in-jhapa-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Balen Shah Defeats UML Chair KP Sharma Oli in Jhapa-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Jhapa, March, 7: Senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Balen Shah, has been elected from Jhapa Constituency No. 5, defeating Chair of the CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli.<\/p>\n<p>According to the vote count, Shah secured 68,348 votes to claim victory, while Oli received 18,724 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhapa, March, 7: Senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Balen Shah, has been elected from Jhapa Constituency No. 5, defeating Chair of the CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli. According to the vote count, Shah secured 68,348 votes to claim victory, while Oli received 18,724 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43620","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\/43620"}],"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=43620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43628,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43620\/revisions\/43628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}