INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BARA, APRIL 25Nepali Congress, Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal, and Rastriya Janamorcha
have decided to contest the upcoming local elections as a united front in Bara's Jitpursimara sub-metropolis.
filed for local elections nationwide
Accusing one of the coalition partners - CPN-Maoist Centre - of
attempting to move unilaterally, three other coalition partners decided to opt out of the central alliance and form a separate alliance,
leaving out CPN- MC and also CPN (Unified Socialist).
Last evening, representatives of the three parties convened and
issued a statement informing about their decision to fight in the upcoming elections by fielding a common candidate
Nepali Congress Jitpursimara city president Chhabilal Sharma, JSP-N central member Bharat Khadka and RJ central member Dharmanand Subedi
Padhya jointly issued the statement
CPN (Unified Socialist) didn't attend the meeting either."If any alliance, the parties to such an alliance are expected to be flexible and
respect each other, but as the CPN-MC tried to move ahead unilaterally, there was no option for us but to form a separate alliance," read
the statement, informing about its decision to field common candidates from the ground up to the mayoral level.The three parties have
accused CPN-MC of fielding its own candidates at the ward level despite getting the mayoral post for itself as per the alliance's decision
As per the central alliance's decision, the posts for mayor and deputy mayor were to go to the CPN-MC and NC respectively
There were, however, disputes not only over posts, and but also posts at the local levels.A version of this article appears in the print on
April 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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