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Nepal elections: Maoists win 61 seats, NC gets 17 |
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Sounding the death knell for the 240-year-old Nepalese monarchy, the Maoists consolidated their impressive lead bagging 61 of the 105 Constituent Assembly seats for which results were declared on Sunday (April 13).
Several bigwigs of the Nepali Congress that dominated Nepal's politics bit the dust, as results trickled in.
With 17 seats, the Nepali Congress (NC) was way behind the former rebels who fought the first election after giving up a decade-long armed struggle in 2006.
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