Rastriya Swatantra Party's Kabindra Burlakoti Elected to House of Representatives from Gorkha-2

Gorkha. Kabindra Burlakoti, General Secretary of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Gorkha Constituency No. 2. On Sunday evening, the Constituency No. 2 election office announced Burlakoti's victory, stating he secured 26,660 votes.

In Gorkha-2, which has a total of 108,533 voters, 57,156 votes were cast. Of these, 54,147 (94.73 percent) votes were valid, and 3,009 (5.26 percent) were invalid. The victorious Burlakoti obtained 49 percent of the valid votes.

Burlakoti received 14,960 more votes than his competitor Prakash Chandra Dawadi, who was the candidate from the Nepali Congress and secured 11,700 votes. Similarly, Lekhnath Neupane of the Communist Party of Nepal received 11,073 votes. Another competitor, Milan Gurung (Chakre Milan) of CPN (UML), received only 3,087 votes.

Burlakoti, elected as a member of the House of Representatives, is one of the founding members of the Rastriya Swatantra Party. When the party was established in Ashad, 2079 BS, he was a central committee member, and within two months, he became the joint general secretary, and within two years, he became the general secretary. He currently serves as the General Secretary of the RSP.

He was born in Mangsir, 2036 BS, to father Rajaram and mother Damarkumari Burlakoti in Salyantar, Dhading. His parents moved to Palungtar-9, Gorkha, when he was five years old, and enrolled him in Class 1 at Dharmodaya Secondary School.

After completing his SLC from Mahendra Secondary School, Kundurtar, Gorkha Municipality-12, he moved to the capital Kathmandu to start a new life. Coming from a financially weak background, he began studying Commerce at Saraswati Campus after passing SLC. During his undergraduate studies, he became involved in various youth empowerment campaigns. He completed his Master's degree in Finance and studied Human Rights and Business at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

He completed a 'Youth Leadership' course from Icom Institute in Malaysia. Subsequently, in 2057 BS, he registered an organization named United Youth, which worked against corruption, and served as its founding chairman, initiating youth empowerment campaigns. Following this, in 2064 BS, under his leadership, the 'Nepal Youth Organization Network,' a network of youth organizations across the country, was formed.

Immediately after that, around 2069 BS, he registered another umbrella organization for youth called the 'National Youth Federation.' Youth organizations from across the country were affiliated with it. "Many youths affiliated with this federation are now MPs alongside me," he says, "During this time, I also served as a Youth Advisor for the United Nations Nepal Chapter from 2008 to 2012. I came from a poor background struggling to make ends meet, and then I got involved in youth activities. I got the opportunity to travel to thirty countries."

He believes that the current nationwide support for the party is the reward for his dedication to it. He states that the reason the Rastriya Swatantra Party is the choice of citizens across the country is due to their honesty, capability, and efficiency. "There were many new parties, but everyone understood that they trusted and relied on us because we have the capacity to work," he says, "Now, our challenge is to maintain this trust and reliance forever."