DOLPA, Dec 9: The left alliance swept in Dolpa winning all the total three parliamentary and provincial seats (two parliamentary seats and the rest provincial).

CPN-UML’s Dhan Bahadur Buda won a parliamentary seat in one of the constituencies. He secured 11,761 votes, while his nearest rival Nepali Congress’s Angat Kumar Buda 3,167 votes.

Likewise, CPN (Maoist Center)’s Bir Bahadur Shahi won a parliamentary seat with 6,414 votes. His closest rival NC’s Suresh Bahadur Shahi received 2,105 votes.

Likewise, UML’s Nanda Singh Buda won a provincial seat with 5,490 votes. His nearest contender NC’s Begam Singh Thakuri got 1,213 votes.

DOLPA, Nov 10: The Himalayan district, Dolpa, is at high risk from climate change effects.
This information was shared at a program on ‘climate change effects and the role of local level in mitigating it’ organized in Dunai on Friday.

District coordinator of the Local Adaptation Plan for Action (LAPA), Santosh Khanal stressed on the need for the local levels to extend the required cooperation in the coming days for minimizing the negative effects of climate change.

Mayor of Thulibheri municipality Ganesh Bahadur Shahi said the global warming is affecting the global climate and it was high time to mitigate the impact of climate change.

People’s representatives of almost all the local levels in the district attended the programme. In the first phase, LAPA has conducted this programme on minimizing the climate change impact in erstwhile Liku, Raha, Kaigaun, Lawan and Sahartara VDCs.

LAPA has been implemented in five previous VDCs of Dolpa district since the last four years and it has been running various related programs. RSS

DOLPA, May 15: Tashi Tunduk Gurung of CPN-UML has been elected unopposed as the chairman of Se Phoksunde rural municipality in Dolpa district.

Similarly, Dhaba Gurung (Independent) has been elected as the vice chairperson.

Meanwhile, in Kaike rural municipality, Angad Rana of UML won the position of chairperson unopposed.