Kathmandu, March 6 -- Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate Balendra Shah has widened his lead in Jhapa-5 as vote counting continues.

Shah has secured 6,551 votes so far, maintaining a comfortable lead over CPN-UML chairman K P Sharma Oli, who has received 1,428 votes.

Samir Tamang of the Shram Sanskriti Party is in third place with 381 votes.

Vote counting in the constituency is ongoing.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from EKantipur.com....