He won the election, defeating Nepali Congress candidate Mani Lama, with 12703 votes (47.19%). In the 1994 election, he was substituted by Ambika Sawa as the CPN(UML) candidate in the constituency.
Kul Prasad Uprety is a Nepalese politician. Uprety contested the 1991 Nepalese legislative election as a Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) candidate in the Taplejung-1 seat.