Baniya defeats KC in re-election for NC’s Bagmati President

KATHMANDU: Indra Baniya has been elected as Nepali Congress (NC) president of Bagmati Province. 

Defeating Jagadish Nar Singh KC with a margin of 158 votes in the re-election held on Sunday. As none of three candidates including Bhimsen Das Pradhan failed to secure more than 50 percent of votes, another round of voting was held for two top vote securers --- Baniya and KC. 

Baniya is considered close to party President Sher Bahadur Deuba while KC was fielded by the Ram Chandra Poudel faction. 

Fourteen of the 2,026 votes cast were invalidated. While Baniya secured 1,085 votes, Singh managed to win 927 votes.