{"id":43651,"date":"2026-03-08T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=43651"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:18:33","slug":"rsp-candidate-kharel-elected-hor-member-from-lalitpur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rsp-candidate-kharel-elected-hor-member-from-lalitpur-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RSP candidate Kharel elected HoR Member from Lalitpur-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Patan (Lalitpur), March 8: Jagadish Kharel of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won the election to the Member of House of Representatives (HoR) by a large margin of votes from Lalitpur Constituency No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lalitpur Constituency No. 2 Election Officer Samjana Simkhada Pudasaini, Kharel has won by securing 39,941 votes. His closest competitor, Prem Krishna Maharjan of the Nepali Congress, received 7,420 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Ujiyalo Nepal Party candidate Rajaram Tandukar got 5,547 votes and CPN (UML) candidate Prem Bahadur Maharjan received 4,536 votes.<\/p>\n<p>In Lalitpur-2, which has a total of 89,082 voters, 61,975, including 31,035 women and 30,940 men, had voted. There were 23 candidates from political parties and also independents in the election race in this constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patan (Lalitpur), March 8: Jagadish Kharel of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won the election to the Member of House of Representatives (HoR) by a large margin of votes from Lalitpur Constituency No. 2. According to Lalitpur Constituency No. 2 Election Officer Samjana Simkhada Pudasaini, Kharel has won by securing 39,941 votes. His closest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43651","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\/43651"}],"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=43651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43652,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43651\/revisions\/43652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}