The results of the election for the post of vice president in Puthauttarganga Rural Municipality of Rukum East have started coming in. According to the preliminary results, Narpura Budha, the candidate of the Maoist Center, has taken the lead.

Budha got 608 votes and Kesh Kumari Tulachan, the joint candidate of Congress-UML, got 476 votes out of 5 thousand 931 votes. According to the office of the Chief Election Officer, 37 votes have been invalidated. 

Ward no. under 22 polling stations in 14 wards Stating that the counting has started from 1 and 14, Assistant Election Officer Ishwari Subedi informed that counting of votes is going on from two places. 

Last August 28, when a jeep accident occurred in Baglung, the municipality vice president Bhupendra Budha and 2 no. After the death of Ward President Jas Bahadur Sirpali, these two posts were vacant.