Twenty-year-old Rima Chhetri committed suicide on Thursday

Twenty-year-old Rima Chhetri, a BBS first year student at Siddhartha Bahumukhi Campus in Fedikhola VDC of Syanjga district, committed suicide on Thursday. She was found dead hanging by a shawl in her room this morning.

Chhetri had filed her candidacy for presidency in Free Student Union election from Nepali Congress affiliated Nepal Students’ Union (NSU). It has been suspected that Chhetri killed herself after lost in the election.

According to District Police Chief SP Dev Bahadur Bogati, a suicide note recovered from the death scene reads ‘dying is not a choice but compulsion’.

The college sources informed that Chhetri had secured only 28 votes in the election held on Wednesday. Chhetri, who had acknowledged her defeat after the poll results were announced at 10 am yesterday, had taken part in victory rally of NSU at Tribhuvan Adarsha Multiple Campus in district headquarters, said NSU district President Ajit Chhetri.