Kathmandu. In the House of Representatives election held on Falgun 21, only one independent candidate secured a victory, while another emerged as the closest runner-up.While Mahabir Pun, the outgoing Minister of Education, Science and Technology, won as an independent candidate from Myagdi, Ashish Sharma, who ran as an independent in Kapilvastu-1, became the closest runner-up.In Kapilvastu-1, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Mohanlal Acharya was elected with 34,148 votes, while independent candidate Sharma secured 15,860 votes to become the runner-up.Sharma had filed his candidacy as an independent after being denied a ticket by the Nepali Congress. Notably, the official Congress candidate, Athar...