Rastriya Prajatantra Party's Rabindra Mishra Suffers Third Consecutive Election Defeat in Kathmandu-1

Kathmandu. Senior Vice-Chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Rabindra Mishra, has registered his third consecutive election loss. As the candidate from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Ranjana Darshana, won by a wide margin in Kathmandu-1, Mishra failed to even secure the position of the closest competitor.

Darshana won by securing 15,455 votes, while the nearest rival, Nepali Congress candidate Prabal Thapa Chhetri, received 6,364 votes.

Mishra, who finished in third place, had to settle for only 3,972 votes. In the 2079 election in this constituency, Nepali Congress candidate Prakash Singh was the victor.

Singh won by securing 7,143 votes, while the closest competitor, Mishra, received 7,011 votes. At that time, he was defeated by a margin of 132 votes. In 2074, Congress's Singh had also won. Singh secured 10,936 votes, while the closest rival, Mishra, the candidate from Bibeksheel Sajha, received 10,118 votes.

This time, Darshana has taken good revenge against Mishra. Darshana, who entered politics through the alternative politics platform Bibeksheel Nepali, had united with the Sajha Party led by Mishra to form Bibeksheel Sajha Party in 2074.

As the party's coordinator, after she brought a proposal regarding the monarchy in the party's political report just before the 2079 elections, Darshana along with Co-coordinator Milan Pandey rebelled. Later, Mishra joined the RPP and secured the ticket from Kathmandu-1.

Darshana was a candidate from Kathmandu-5 in the 2079 election. However, she could not achieve the expected results. In 2074, as the candidate for Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City from Bibeksheel Nepali, she gained attention by securing over 23,000 votes. Darshana had joined the RSP just before the election.