INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BARA, APRIL 16Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal has recommended names of seven persons for
the post of mayor and deputy-mayor in Kalaiya Sub-metropolitan City in Bara.
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A meeting of the party chaired by party Chair Shivnath Patel
recommended three individuals including former member of Constituent Assembly Pramod Gupta for the post of mayor
The other recommended individuals are Dharmendra Yadav and Sunil Das
Likewise, Umarawati Yadav, Laxmi Patel, Prakash Chaigai and Shankar Yadav have been recommended for the post of deputy-mayor
JSP-N has nominated the names for mayor and deputy mayor after each party in the five-party alliance staked claim for the major posts.
In the last local levels, the Nepali Congress had secured the first position while JSP-N had come third and the CPN-UML had come
in the second position.The NC seems strong and mayor Rajesh Ray Yadav, who was elected as the Bara district president, is preparing for
re-election.JSP-N is highly unlikely to forge electoral alliance with the NC in the local polls.A version of this article appears in the
print on April 17, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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