DHARAN, Dec 2: Tilak Rai of Nepali Congress has been elected as the mayor of Dharan sub-metropolitan city in the by-polls.
Rai registered the historic win defeating his nearest contestant Prakash Rai of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) with a margin of 2,795 votes.
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Of 54,848 votes, winning candidate Rai garnered a total of 26,709 votes while NCP’s Rai got 23,914 votes.
Similarly, Jiwan Raj Subedi of NCP has been elected the chairperson of Ward 7.
