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“I am conceding. We have lost a good fight”, said former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Voters swung behind Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United National Party (UNP), dashing ex-strongman Mahinda Rajapakse’s hopes of a comeback after his shock defeat in January’s presidential poll.

Once bitter critics, Mr Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) and Mr Prasad’s RJD has joined hands with Congress to form a broad alliance against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which has Union ministers Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Upendra...

While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won 13 seats together, the JD(U), RJD and Congress combine could manage to win only 9 seats.