Key Points
President of the newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rabi Lamichhane and the partys new star campaigner Swarnim Wagle beat their rivals from established parties with handsome margins..
A month ago, Wagle, who had repeatedly been snubbed by the Nepali Congress (NC) leadership, including in the general election in November, had defected from the grand old party established in 1950 and joined the RSP ranks...
This time around, Yadav salvaged his reputation as a common candidate of more than half a dozen parties in the ruling coalition, including the Nepali Congress and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachandas Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) the largest and the third-largest party in the deeply hung parliament..
Shah, only 32 and contesting as an independent, drubbed his much-fancied rivals from the Congress and Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), Nepals two leading parties..
Unlike the communist parties, the Nepali Congress has been consistently in favour of the largest-ever infrastructure grant to Nepal, but a change in balance of power in government could still invite fresh hurdles in the implementation of MCC projects..
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