Kathmandu- Senior advocate Rabinarayan Khanal has won the position of councilor of the Legal Practitioners Council from Bagmati Province.

He defeated rival senior advocate Parshuram Koirala by a margin of 578 votes. Khanal received 2,355 votes, while Koirala received 1,777 votes, according to the election committee.

Khanal belongs to the Progressive Professional Legal Practitioners Organization close to UML. He was also supported by the Revolutionary Legal Practitioners Organization close to Maoists.

Koirala had filed his candidacy on behalf of the Nepal Democratic Lawyers Association close to the Congress. He was supported by the Legal Practitioners Organization close to the Unified Socialist Party of Nepal.

The council is an organization that monitors and regulates the professional code of conduct of legal practitioners. Its chairman is the Attorney General.According to the system of selecting one councilor from each of the seven provinces, the voting for the Bagmati Province councilor was held at the Supreme Court premises.

There were 8,200 voters in Bagmati Province alone.Earlier, senior advocate Dr. Chandrakant Gyawali was elected as the councilor of Bagmati Province.The term of office of a councilor is five years.

Similarly,Raju Dhakal from Koshi Province, Sanjeev Kumar Mallik from Madhes, Dayaram Gautam from Gandaki, Ishwori Prasad Gyawali from Lumbini, Matrika Prasad Khanal from Karnali and Tek Bahadur Kathayat from Sudurpaschim have won the election.

Candidates of the DLA (Congress)-led alliance have won in Koshi, Madhes, Gandaki, Lumbini and Sudurpaschim provinces. An alliance was formed between the Nepali Congress and the organization of legal practitioners close to the Unified Socialist Party in this election.

Candidates of the UML-Maoist alliance have won only in Bagmati and Karnali.