RAJBIRAJ, Nov 23: CK Raut, chairman of Janamat Party, has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Saptari-2 with a landslide victory. He defeated Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) President Upendra Yadav by a wide margin of 18,073 votes.
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While Raut obtained 35,042 votes, his competitor Yadav managed to get 16,969 votes. Jayaprakash Thakur of Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, the common candidate from the ruling alliance, finished a distant third with 7,344 votes.
