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NC Candidate Own Baglung By-election
KTM Reporter
April 12, 2015: the NC candidate Champa Khadka won the by-election held in the Baglung constituency number one with 17,154 votes while her nearest rival candidate of the CPN-UML managed to garner 15,064 losing the lection whereas the candidate of UCPN-Maoist received only 2,505 votes about one third of what the party managed to receive in the previous election. Unfortunately, the UCPN-Maoist lost even the election deposit the annapurnapost.com has the news.
This by-election was held after the death of Hari Khadka. He was elected as the NC candidate from this constituency in 2013. He happened to be on a car that skidded from the road injuring Khadka among others. The helicopter carrying Prime Minister Sushil Koirala brought down Khadka to Pokhara but injured and unconscious Khadka were left unattended in the Pokhara airport for more than three hours before airlifting to Kathmandu causing unmanageable damage to his brain and ultimately to his death. Now, his widow got elected from the same constituency.
http://annapurnapost.com/News.aspx/story/10265
