Kathmandu: Nepal's Unified CPN-Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, today suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Nepali Congress candidate Rajan K C in the Constituent Assembly elections.
Rajan received 20,392 votes and restricted Prachanda to 12,852 in his Kathmandu Constituency 10.
Third candidate CPN-UML's Surendra Manandhar received 13,615 votes. Prachanda had won from the same constituency in 2008 with big margin. Rajan was his nearest rival then.
Prachanda is also candidate from Siraha Constituency 5 also, where he is leading the vote count so far.
His party earlier demanded a suspension of the vote counting, alleging conspiracy after initial results showed the party trailing at third position in the elections.
Meanwhile, Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety told a press conference today that the counting was being carried out in “a transparent manner” and would continue.
