INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RAUTAHAT, APRIL 25CPN (Unified Socialist) is said to have dithered from contesting the election by forging an alliance
in Rautahat, the home district of the party's chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal.
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Though Nepal himself is one of the
leaders who went all-out lobbying that the ruling coalition should fight the election as a united front across the country, leaders of his
own party in his own home district were reportedly against any alliance here.
Meanwhile, the party has been unable to field
its candidates in all local levels thus far.So far, it has fielded its mayoral candidates in Gaur, Rajdevi, Garuda, Yamunamai, Chandrapur,
Brindaban, and a few other local levels
The district has a total of 18 local levels.As the party was desperately searching for its deserving candidate to fight in the mayoral post
in Garuda Municipality, it got one and officially declared him as the mayoral candidate in the local level
Former Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal Madhes Province member Brij Kishor Yadav was fielded as CPN (US) mayoral candidate from Garuda after he
left the JSP-N and entered CPN(US) last night because he couldn't get election ticket from his own party - JSP-N.Last night itself, Nepali
Congress' Koshila Devi Sinha, denied election ticket in Ishanath Municipality, left her party and joined the CPN (US), to once again join
yet another party - Lokatantraik Samajbadi Party.Barely 12 hours after she had joined CPN-US, she had left the party and jointed LSP.This
shows how difficult it is to find a candidate to entrust with the mayoral ticket in Rautahat for all parties, not only for CPN (US)
The district has also witnessed increasing trend among aspirants for election tickets leaving one party and joining another
And there is also increasing dissatisfaction among party rank and file in the district where local leaders and cadres accuse the party
leadership mostly of distributing election tickets to only those who have deep pockets.Just recently, CPN-UML leader Baban Singh posted a
status on Facebook and accused party standing committee member Prabhu Sah of distributing election tickets on the basis of ethnicity.A
version of this article appears in the print on April 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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