{"id":49506,"date":"2026-06-14T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49506"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:52:28","slug":"ghimire-elected-lumbini-province-president-of-rsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ghimire-elected-lumbini-province-president-of-rsp\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghimire elected Lumbini Province president of RSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ghorahi (Dang), June 14: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has elected Shalikram Ghimire as party president for Lumbini Province.<\/p>\n<p>Voting was held for the election of province president where Ghimire collected 199 votes, which did not make up 51 percent of the vote turnout, leading to second round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>There were six candidates in fray for the province president of RSP. Once the second round of voting kicked off, rival Gopal Ghimire supported Shalikram, ensuring the latter&#8217;s victory, according to chief election officer Gokul Sapkota.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of voting, Gopal Ghimire got 87 votes, while Ganesh Paudel 84 votes, Dr Raj Kumar Subedi 80 votes, Manju Bhusal 71 votes and Madhu Aryal 19 votes. Total vote turnout in the election held last night was 552.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghorahi (Dang), June 14: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has elected Shalikram Ghimire as party president for Lumbini Province. Voting was held for the election of province president where Ghimire collected 199 votes, which did not make up 51 percent of the vote turnout, leading to second round of voting. There were six candidates in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49506","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\/49506"}],"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=49506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49509,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49506\/revisions\/49509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}