NCP candidate Rokaya got 7,243 votes. With his victory, the Congress has regained its legacy after 8 years.
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Nepali Congress candidate Jayapati Rokaya has won the House of Representatives seat from Humla with 8,797 votes.
He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Dipendra Rokaya by a margin of 1,554 votes. NCP candidate Rokaya got 7,243 votes. With his victory, the Congress has regained its legacy after 8 years.
The winner Rokaya is the former district president of the Nepali Congress. He had contested for the House of Representatives for the first time directly. He served as the president of Nepal Students' Union and Tarun Dal Humla and became the party president of Humla for two terms.
Having started politics with Nepal Students' Union since 2040 BS, he is now a member of the party's Karnali Province Working Committee. He was on the proportional list for the House of Representatives elections in 2074 BS and 2079 BS. But he did not get the opportunity to become an MP.
Born in 2035, Rokaya, 47, is a resident of Tallogaun in Simkot Rural Municipality. He has completed his studies up to SLC. In the last House of Representatives election, former Maoist Tshiring Damdul Lama (Vote) won, while in the 2074 election, independent candidate Chhakka Bahadur Lama won. He later joined the Maoist Center.
In the second Constituent Assembly election, Congress' Jeevan Bahadur Shahi was elected from Constituency No. 1. Since then, no Congress candidate has been able to win the House of Representatives in Humla.
Immediately after winning, Rokaya said that he would take the voice of the backward district to the parliament and take initiatives to make the district prosperous.
‘My initiative will be to connect Humla with mainstream politics and solve the geographical, social and economic problems here,’ he said. ‘I will be active in Parliament to work in a way that will show results, not emotional politics.’
-Krishna Prasad Gautam
