Rajan received 20,392 votes and restricted Prachanda to 12,852 in his Kathmandu Constituency 10.u00a0 Third candidate CPN-UML&#39;s Surendra Manandhar received 13,615 votes. Prachanda had won from the same constituency in 2008 with big margin. Rajan was his nearest rival then. Prachanda is also candidate from Siraha Constituency 5 also, where he is leading the vote count so far. <img alt="Prachanda" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/nov/Prachanda.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 344px;" /> Nepal&#39;s Maoist chief Prachanda. File pic His party earlier demanded a suspension of the vote counting, alleging conspiracy after initial results showed the party trailing at third position in the elections. Meanwhile, Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety told a press conference today that the counting was being carried out in &quot;a transparent manner&quot; and would continue. &quot;The elections were conducted in a free, fair and fearless manner, so the results must be accepted by all.&quot; He also asked the political parties to honour the peoples&#39; verdict expressed through secret voting procedures. The counting will lead to the formation of a 601-member assembly to draft a new Constitution, including 240 elected under a direct voting system. There was proportionate voting for 335 seats and the remaining 26 members will be nominated by the government. In the previous Constituent Assembly elections in 2008, UCPN-M had emerged as the largest party with NC and CPN UML in second and third place.u00a0

Nepal's Unified CPN-Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, today suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Nepali Congress candidate Rajan K C in the Constituent Assembly elections.

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