INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RAUTAHAT, MAY 7A majority of election candidates running in the upcoming election are
same old faces who contested in the last election in Rautahat
Of the total 18 local levels, including two rural municipalities, 14 local levels have election candidates most of whom had contested in the
past election of 2017 as well.
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Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party's Ajaya Kumar Gupta in Gaur Municipality, Nepali Congress's
Dhirendra Prasad Singh in Rajdevi, Arun Kumar Sah in Durga Bhagawati Rural Municipality and Shyam Prasad Yadav in Gadhimai and Ramsneshi
Yadav in Brindaban are the candidates who had also fought in the past election
Similarly, Janata Samajbadi Party's Santalal Chaudhary in Gujara, Anil Kumar Yadav in Garuda and Rabibranjan Yadav in Baudhimai, NC's Gopal
Yadav in Fatuwa Bijayapur and Shekh Wakil in Paroha, and CPN- UML's Rina Kumari Sah in Maulapur, Santosh Kumar Mehata in Ishanath and
Siyaram Kushwaha in Katahariya are also repeated faces.
Four local levels - Chandrapur, Rajpur, Dewahi Gonahi and Yamunamai
- have new faces contesting for the chief of the local levels
While NC's Sanjaya Kafle is contesting in Chanrapur Municipality, JSP has fielded former mayor Dharmendra Patel's wife as the mayoral
candidate this time in Dewahi Gonahi.While NC's decision to field Kafle has got its veteran leader Ramchandra Chaudhary to file his own
candidacy as an independent candidate, JSP's decision to settle on former mayor's wife for the top post of the local level by ignoring many
other deserving candidates has got the party rank and file here discontent.A version of this article appears in the print on May 08, 2022 of
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