NAWALPARASI: Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan, the candidate of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Nawalparasi-2.

Pradhan has been elected by defeating his closest contender Nepali Congress candidate Devendra Raj Kandel by a huge margin.

While Pradhan got 34,959 votes and Kandel got 19,594 votes.

Similarly, CPN-UML candidate Dipendra Kumari Adhikari got 14,498 votes.