Janata Samajbadi Party leader Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav has been elected the new Vice President of Nepal.
Yadav garnered 30,328 votes while his closest rival Astalaxmi Shakya secured 16,328 votes.
Similarly, Mamata Jha of Janamat Party garnered 2,537 votes while Pramila received 48 votes, according to the updates provided by the Election Commission.
As many as 310 votes were cast under the Federal Parliament and 518 votes under the Province Assembly.
According to CPN (UML) whip Mahesh Bartaula, 22 members of parliament (MPs) from the Federal Parliament and 32 MPs from the Province Assembly abstained from voting.
Bartaula said 14 MPs from Rastriya Prajatantra Party and one MP from Nepal Workers Peasants Party (NWPP) are among those absent from the Federal Parliament.
Similarly, 32 members of the Province Assembly did not cast votes. Absent are 28 MPs from RPP, 1 from Janata Samajbadi Party and 3 from NWPP.
