BAJURA: Nepali Congress candidate for the House of Representatives member from Bajura Badri Pandey has taken the lead with 1,991 votes.
Pandey has got 14,115 votes while CPN-UML’s Karna Bahadur Thapa has got 12,114 votes.
UML’s Chetan Aydi died after being beaten up by NC cadres workers after a dispute during voting on the election day.
Counting of votes in Bajura was stopped after Aydi’s death.
After the Election Commission decided not to re-vote, the counting of votes started in Bajura from Thursday.
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