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"THIS IS THE PEOPLE'S VICTORY!"

Last Thursday (4.10) the people of Nepal voted for the Constituent Assembly (CA). Although the election final results will be available in at least two weeks (according to the Nepalese Election Commission) the Nepalese media published a few first - actually interesting, for the Nepalese ruling class likely very outraged ( they "are seemingly at unease over the nationwide sweep of the election by the party of former rebels", i.e. the CPN(M), so today's Nepalnews)  - trends: Until now CPN(M) got 15 seats (but there are 601 in the CA!!), the (revisionist) CPN-UML and the (bourgeois) Congess Party each got four seats... [Updates coming till 5:00 pm Sunday show that the CPN(M) have bagged 57 seats of the total 94 election constituencies where vote counting has been completed. CPN(UML) got 17 and Nepali Congress 16 seats, according to the NEC.](*)

Chairman Prachanda triumphs in Ktm-10 as his party takes initial lead (Nepalnews, 4.12)

According to latest reports, CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda has won in Kathmandu constituency-10 (KTM-10) with a huge vote margin, as his party has also taken an initial lead in seat counts. Our reporter at the vote-counting center said that the official announcement for the same would be made shortly.

Prachanda, or Puhpa Kamal Dahal, secured 20,499 votes, almost double than his close rival Rajendra Kumar K.C of NC who got 11,103 votes. UML fared badly in this constituency also as in other Katmandu constituencies that used to be its stronghold. The party’s bet for the constituency, Sanu Kumar Shrestha, managed to garner just 6,216 votes.

Along with Prachanda, another Maoist leader and minister in Koirala cabinet Hisila Yami has retained the winning streak of the party by emerging victorious with 9273 votes in Kathmandu constituency-7. Her closest rival Rajendra Prasad Shrestha of UML has come second with 6,114 votes while Pramila Singh Dangol of NC has got 5680 votes.

Three other top Maoist leaders have already donned the victory cap in various places across the country, and they are – Krishna Bahadur Mahara from Dang 3, Dev Prasad Gurung from Manang-1 and Pampha Bhusal from Lalitpur-3. Senior Maoist leaders Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal) and Dr Baburam Bhattarai are also ahead in their constituencies in Chitwan-2 and Gorkha-2 respectively and are expected to win with considerable margin.

According to latest Nepalnews count, Maoists leads the seat count with 14 constituencies to its name , while NC and UML have 4 seats each and NWPP trails with 2 seats.

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2008/apr/apr12/news07.php

And some politicians had to take the first consequences:

M. Nepal set to quit UML General Secretary post

(eKantipur, 4.12)

Top CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal Saturday has decided to table his resignation from the post of party General Secretary.
Nepal’s resignation comes in the wake of his defeat in the Constituent Assembly elections from Kathmandu district constituency-2 with a huge margin of votes.

UML central leader Bishnu Rijal informed that Nepal has already tabled his resignation at the party central committee.

Nepal lost at Kathmandu-2, his home constituency, to previously not-so-popular Maoist candidate Jhakku Prasad Subedi.

Nepal had secured only 12,324 votes, while the winner Subedi had garnered 13,858 votes. 

The CPN-UML had ruled all the constituencies of Kathmandu district in the last parliamentary elections in 1999.

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=143772

Related articles:

☞ CPN(M): "We want to continue working with parties.." (Nepalnews, 4.12)

☞ Carter says US should recognize Maoist poll victory (Nepalnews, 4.12)

☞ Maoists in early Nepal vote lead (al-Jazeera, 4.12)

☞ Surprise lead for Maoists.. (The Observer/UK, 4.13)

* For more informations:

☞ The latest CA election results (permanent updated by Nepalnews)