April 26: Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Chair Upendra Yadav has been elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Bara district electoral constituency-2. As per the final vote count results announced on Tuesday night, Yadav bagged 28, 415 votes and was elected to the lower house of the Federal Parliament. His closest contender Shiva Chandra Kushwaha of Janamat Party garnered 23,334 votes.    
Similarly, CPN (UML) candidate Purushottam Poudel received 10,216 votes while Ramesh Kharel of Rastriya Swatantra Party got 2,829 votes, Arun Kumar Gyawali of the Aam Janata Party 2,738 votes, Sonalal Saha of Rastriya Prajatantra Party 119 votes, Kamarullah Ansari of Nagarik Unmukti Party 109 votes and Mukti Yadav of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 60 votes.    
A total of 68,887 voters had cast their votes in the by-election held in Bara-2 constituency last Sunday.    
During the general election held on November 20 last year, Yadav was defeated by Dr CK Raut, chairman of Janamat Party, in Saptari electoral constituency-2.    
The HoR seat from Bara constituency 2 had fallen vacant after Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav of JSP, who was elected from this constituency, was elected to the post of Vice President, necessitating the by-election.    
The Chief Returning Officer of Bara handed over the election certificate to the JSP Chair Yadav on Tuesday night. -- RSS