{"id":74181,"date":"2026-03-07T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=74181"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:40:06","slug":"mahesh-basnet-concedes-defeat-in-bhaktapur-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/74181","title":{"rendered":"Mahesh Basnet concedes defeat in Bhaktapur-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Mahesh Basnet, who is contesting the House of Representatives election from Bhaktapur-2 on a CPN (UML) ticket, has admitted that the results of this election could not be in his favour. He said people&#8217;s decision is supreme in a democracy and that it would be accepted respectfully. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had contested the election from Bhaktapur-2 on a Nepal Communist Party (UML) ticket. This time, the result could not be in our favour, but I accept it respectfully with the belief that people&#8217;s decision is paramount in a democracy. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>He also congratulated Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate Rajiv Khatri and wished him a successful term. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Election Commission&#8217;s update, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RSP)&#8217;s Rajiv Khatri is leading with 34702 votes. UML&#8217;s Basnet has 8351 votes. Kabir Rana of Nepali Congress is in the third position with 7321 votes. The counting of votes is underway. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Rajiv Khatri and wish him a successful term,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Basnet thanked the voters who trusted him and expressed gratitude to the party leaders and cadres as well as supporters who were involved in the election campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Basnet said that winning and losing is a natural process in politics and the commitment to serve the people would never be lost. <\/p>\n<p>Stating that he would play the role of a constructive opposition in the days ahead, he pledged to continue raising voice from outside the parliament for education, health, employment, corruption-free good governance and building a prosperous society. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Mahesh Basnet, who is contesting the House of Representatives election from Bhaktapur-2 on a CPN (UML) ticket, has admitted that the results of this election could not be in his favour. He said people&#8217;s decision is supreme in a democracy and that it would be accepted respectfully. &#8220;I had contested the election from Bhaktapur-2<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/74181\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Mahesh Basnet concedes defeat in Bhaktapur-2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":74177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u0969 \u092b\u093e\u0932\u094d\u0917\u0941\u0928 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u0936\u0928\u093f\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0966\u096f:\u0968\u0966","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74182,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions\/74182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}