This time, with the defeat of NCP candidate Basnet, the Congress has broken the 18-year-old monopoly of the then Maoist Center in Jajarkot.
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This time, Khadka Bahadur Budha of the Nepali Congress won the House of Representatives from Jajarkot, a hilly district of Karnali Province. He won by defeating his nearest rival, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP).
Budha got 20,142 votes, while Basnet got 17,407 votes. Another candidate, Dambar Bahadur Singh of the CPN-UML, got 16,883 votes.
This time, with the defeat of the CPN-UML candidate Basnet, the Congress has broken the 18-year-old monopoly of the then Maoist Center in Jajarkot. Basnet himself has won three times from here. No CPN candidate has been defeated in any election from Jajarkot since 2064.
But this time, Budha, the acting president of the NC Jajarkot, succeeded in breaking the 18-year-old victory of the CPN. The 40-year-old had entered active politics from a student organization close to the Congress. After being defeated as the chairman of Shivalaya Rural Municipality in 2074, he entered the election fray this time with development, employment and good governance as the main agenda.
He has said that he will reduce poverty in the district, improve health services, complete post-earthquake reconstruction, develop agriculture, herbs and hydropower, and continue the development of infrastructure. Along with this, he also says that he will reduce the compulsion of patients in the district to go to other districts.
Basnet, who entered the federal parliament through the second Constituent Assembly election held in 2070, had set an undefeated journey in 2074 and 2079 with different alliances with the Congress-UML. But Basnet, who was trying to win the House of Representatives for the fourth time this time, was stopped by the Congress's young leader Budha. He had also become a minister several times while participating in the Maoist government.
