KATHMANDU, April 11: Maoist candidate Krishna Bahadur Gurung defeated Nepali Congress candidate Dipak Gurung by just 32 votes in the by-election held on Friday in Kaski-1 constituency, according to our correspondent Manoj Adhikari. Maoist candidate Gurung secured 12,257 against Dipak Gurung’s 12,225. CPN-UML candidate Shaligram Poudel got 11,118 votes.
This is the constituency vacated by Maoist leader Dev Prasad Gurung, who is currently the Law minister.