RSP's Kabindra Burlakoti Wins Gorkha-2 Seat with Strikingly Similar Margin as Previous Loss

Pokhara. Rastriya Swatantra Party's Kabindra Burlakoti has won the Gorkha Constituency No. 2. He defeated his closest competitor, Prakash Chandra Dwadi of the Nepali Congress, by a significant margin. A remarkable coincidence has occurred in Gorkha-2: the margin by which he lost three years ago in 2079 is the exact margin by which he has won today.

According to the final results of the counting held on Sunday, RSP candidate Burlakoti won by securing 26,660 votes. His closest competitor, Congress's Dwadi, received 11,700 votes. The candidate from Prachanda's party, the CPN (Maoist Centre), Lekhnath Neupane, received even fewer votes, securing only 11,073 votes.

In the 2079 election, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' won by securing 26,103 votes, while Burlakoti was limited to 12,637 votes. In the span of three years, he added 14,023 votes. The situation for the old Maoist, now CPN (Maoist Centre), became pitiable in Gorkha-2, which is always considered a stronghold of the Maoists.

Similarly, CPN-UML candidate Milan Gurung (Chakre Milan) received only 3,087 votes. In the previous election, UML candidate Abdus Miyan had received more than 7,000 votes from here. The gangster leader Chakre showed a much weaker presence compared to the previous election.