{"id":74356,"date":"2026-03-07T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=74356"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:35:04","slug":"balen-wins-in-jhapa-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/74356","title":{"rendered":"Balen wins in Jhapa-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Rastriya Swatantra Party (RPP) senior leader Balendra Sah has been elected from Jhapa-5 defeating former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. He got the highest number of votes so far while destroying Oli&#8217;s legacy. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Oli has lost a parliamentary election. Before this, he had won 6 times from different areas of Jhapa. In the 2008 Constituent Assembly elections, he had to face defeat from Jhapa-7 due to the Maoist wave. <\/p>\n<p>In the 2079 BS elections, Oli had won with the highest number of votes in the country. This time, it&#8217;s just the opposite. Rastriya Samajwadi Party (RSP) candidate Balen defeated Oli by securing the highest number of votes in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Out of 106,372 votes cast in Jhapa, Balendra Sah got 68,348 votes and Oli got 18,734 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Rastriya Swatantra Party (RPP) senior leader Balendra Sah has been elected from Jhapa-5 defeating former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. He got the highest number of votes so far while destroying Oli&#8217;s legacy. This is the second time Oli has lost a parliamentary election. Before this, he had won 6 times from different areas<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/74356\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Balen wins in Jhapa-5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":66444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74356","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 \u0967\u096e:\u0967\u096d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74356","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=74356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74357,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74356\/revisions\/74357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}