UML Chair Oli proposed to contest polls from Siraha constituency-1
LAHAN (Siraha), Oct 8: The CPN-UML has unanimously recommended party Chairman KP Sharma Oli to contest the House of Representatives elections from Siraha constituency-1.
Rabindra Mishra is planning to join the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) before filing his nomination for the November 20 House of Representatives elections.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 27: There is a provision for a civil servant to retire after 60 years in Nepal. The government provides allowances to people who are more than 68 years old. But, there is no boundary and age limit for political leaders to contest in the election. Both the young and elderly leaders are busy these days gearing up for the upcoming polls scheduled for November 20 later this year.
PM Sher Bahadur Deuba
He has been contesting elections since 2048 BS, remains undefeated and has been elected Prime Minister of the country five times.
PM Sher Bahadur Deuba is preparing to contest in the upcoming polls from Dadeldhura district. He has already been elected six times since 2048 BS. So far, Deuba has been elected as a member of parliament for seven times and Prime Minister for five times. Deuba, who was born in 2003 BS, is in his late seventies.
Poudel, 78, is also vying to be a member of parliament
Senior leader of Nepali Congress, Ram Chandra Poudel is 78 years old. He has been contesting in the federal election from Tanahu from 2048 BS. So far, he has been elected as a member of the parliament six times. Besides, he has been elected as a Speaker of the parliament once and served as minister for various ministries five times.
Foreign Minister Khadka
Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka is also among those leaders who are in their seventies and are still looking forward to being a member of the parliament in the upcoming polls. He was born in Chaitra 7, 2005 BS. He is currently preparing to contest in the federal election from Udayapur-1. So far, he has already been elected thrice from Udayapur and became a minister twice.
CPN-UML Chiar Oli
Chairman of CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli is in his early seventies these days. Oli, born in Falgun 18, 2008 BS, has been contesting in the federal elections since 2048 BS. He has already been elected as a member of the parliament for six times and became Prime Minister of Nepal twice. He is preparing to contest in the upcoming polls from Jhapa-5.
Subash Chandra Nembang
Leader of CPN-UML, Subash Chandra Nembang was born in Falgun 28, 2009 BS. Nembang has been contesting in elections since 2056 BS. He has already been Minister for Law and elected Speaker of Parliament twice.
In the upcoming federal election, Nembang is preparing to contest from Ilam-2.
Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Nepal
Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairman of CPN (US) is also in his early seventies. He was born in Falgun 23, 2009 BS. He has been contesting in elections since 2056 BS. So far, Nepal has been elected as a member of the parliament five times. Nepal was also elected as the Prime Minister of the country once. In the upcoming polls, Nepal is preparing to contest from Rautahat1.
Senior leader of CPN (US) Jhalanath Khanal
Jhalanath Khanal, a senior leader of CPN (US) is also in his early seventies. Khanal has already been elected as a member of the parliament for six times and is preparing to contest in the upcoming polls from Illam-1.
He has already been elected Minister for various ministries thrice and elected to the post of Prime Minister once. He is currently 73 years old.
Eldest member of parliament, Thakur
Chairman of Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, Mahanta Thakur was born in Jestha 13, 1999 BS. Thakur,the eldest member of the House of Representatives (HoR), is also preparing to contest in the upcoming polls from Mahottari-3. He has already served as minister for various ministries several times.
Bam Dev Gautam, 73
Bam Dev Gautam, born in Asar, 2006, has already been deputy prime minister and home minister thrice. So far, Gautam has contested six times in the federal elections – was victorious thrice. He is currently preparing to contest in the upcoming polls from Pyuthan.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chairman of CPN (Maoist Center) was born in Mangsir 26, 2011 BS. He is currently 68 years old and is preparing to contest in the upcoming federal election from Chitwan-3. He has already been Prime Minister of Nepal twice.
Babu Ram Bhattarai, 68
Babu Ram Bhattari was born in Asar 4, 2011 BS. He is currently 68 years old and has agreed to contest in the upcoming polls from Gorkha-2 using the election symbol of CPN (Maoist Center). Bhattarai has been successful in being elected Prime Minister once and Finance Minister once.
AUG 15: The election of the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assemblies are scheduled for November 20 later this year. The party registration for the election is coming to an end in the next three days. Political parties, candidates and leaders are busy holding their election campaigns.
The ruling alliance of Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Sociaist), Janata Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha Party are up against the main opposition party CPN-UML and other political parties in the upcoming election. The ruling alliance has already decided to forge an electoral alliance.
In this scenario, Ratopati has talked with the Deputy General Secretary of CPN-UML, Bishnu Rimal.
How is UML’s preparation for the upcoming polls going on?
Recently on Thursday, we held a party's secretariat meeting focusing on the upcoming polls. We are soon to hold meetings of the standing committee, central committee and politburo. These meetings will finalize our plans for the polls.
It won’t be wrong to say that election manifestos of political parties are paper oriented only. Why is it so?
I think it is just an acquisition against political parties. It is not true that the party in power prepares policies and budgets contradicting its manifesto.
While we were in power, we used to read our manifesto everytime we prepared policies and acted. Our fifteenth plan was prepared on its basis and according to which the government’s policies and program was prepared.
If so, why don’t we get results then?
I don’t think so. As far as I see, we got it. For example, road construction, electricity, social development, gender equality, social security, health insurance, child development, etc, are all linked with our manifesto.
The public voted for the leftist alliance. They trusted you. And once you were in power, you began to construct view towers rather than industries. How many new opportunities of employment did you create apart from making people clean roadsides in the name of the Prime Minister Employment Program?
Firstly, People should not be making views based on their understanding only. Didn’t the National Reconstruction Authority established after the earthquake give employment opportunities to people?
Secondly, is cleaning the roads not a job? Isn’t it fair to let unemployed people clean the road and pay rather than paying them without letting them do anything? Didn’t the Constitution guarantee 100 days of job opportunities to unemployed people? It is not what the unemployed people did. It is whether they got to earn or not. The Prime Minister Employment Program has created as many as 2,200,000 jobs in a year.
Likewise, if constructing a view tower provides employment opportunities then what is wrong with it?
Government could have used that fund to establish industries. No?
Yes. It could have.
It was your party that sold dreams of waterways, trains and availability of cooking gasses through pipelines in every house and while your party came to power you dissolved the parliament and got involved in politics rather than sticking to your words.
Is it not possible to have trains and waterways in our country? It is but it takes time. It is not something that can be achieved in a day or two.
The ruling alliance is pursuing the voters not to vote for CPN-UML that dissolved the parliament twice. What do you have to say?
If so then it will be their responsibility to clarify the rights of the Prime Minister. In our part, we have already done that. The party dissolved the parliament just to safeguard our manifesto and demanded an election. There was no environment for us to carry out our plans and programs that we had mentioned in our manifesto.
The then PM KP Sharma Oli has been defending himself, maintaining that others did not let him work. How fair is it to not be able to organize one's own party and to dissolve the parliament in anger?
That’s a different issue. But, constitutionally, the PM has the right to dissolve the parliament.
You mean to say that CPN-UML took a right move and will advocate same during the upcoming elections?
Yes. House dissolution was a right move and our future Prime Ministers should have the right to do the same.
On what basis is the CPN-UML maintaining that it will form a majority government?
We will contest in the upcoming polls with a strong agenda and voters will love our agenda. The local polls have already indicated that voters vote for an agenda not a party or candidate. Our agendas are ‘Prosperous Nepal Happy Nepali’, Socialism and transformative works. If voters believe us, then we will be able to form a government.
How many votes will the CPN-UML garner?
We will be able to collect enough votes to form a government. If voters love our agenda, no one can defeat us. Agenda was the reason why independent candidates won local elections at Dharan, Dhangadi and Kathmandu.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 8: The government has already announced to hold the general elections on November 20 later this year.
With the announcement, political parties and leaders are busy preparing themselves for the upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal Kamal Thapa is preparing to field his candidacy for the election of House of Representatives (HoR) from Makwanpur-1.
Thapa-led RPP Nepal is likely to forge an electoral alliance with CPN-UML in the upcoming polls.
It is apparent that Thapa will seek UML’s support at Makwanpur-1 and will support UML in other constituencies.
KATHMANDU, April 13: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Nepal have agreed that the RPP Nepal will contest in local polls using UML’s election symbol.
The two parties have also maintained that if those RPP leaders contesting using UML’s election symbol win the election, they will still be in the RPP Nepal.
The two parties will also forge an election alliance in upcoming local elections scheduled on May 10.
The meeting held between the two parties on Wednesday was attended by Chairman of RPP Nepal, Kamal Thapa and Vice-Chairman of UML, Vishnu Poudel and General Secretary Shankar Pokharel.
KATHMANDU, April 8: At the time when the ruling alliance has decided to forge an electoral alliance in the upcoming local level election, the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to contest for the post of mayor in Biratnagar Metropolitan City independently.
The party has maintained that it doesn’t require any sort of alliance in the metropolist to win the election.
“There will be no alliance in all the 19 wards of the metropolis,” said Deepak Chapagain, Metropolis President of the party.
According to Chapagain, names of candidates for wards and metropolis have already been finalized.
In the local level election held in 2074 BS, NC had won in eight wards in the Biratnagar Metropolis. Besides, the Federal Socialist Forum had won in 6 wards, CPN-UML in three and CPN (Maoist Center) in one ward.
Bhim Parajuli was elected in the post of Mayor of the metropolis representing NC, garnering a total of 23,031 votes. His nearest contender was Binod Dhakal, a common candidate of CPN-UML and Forum Loktantrik.
In comparison to the last election, 19,381 voters have been added in the metropolis this time. As per the latest data of the Election Commission (EC), there are as many as 133,142 voters in Biratnagar.
With NC’s decision to avoid electoral alliance in Biratnagar, CPN (Maoist Center), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and CPN (Unified Socialist) are likely to forge an electoral alliance. Likewise, an electoral alliance between CPN-UML and JSP is also likely. Also, there is a buzz of alliance between UML and Rastriya Prajatantra Party in the metropolis.
KATHMANDU, Jan 20: Opposition parties --- CPN-UML and Democratic Socialist Party (DSP)-- have agreed to form an alliance to contest the National Assembly (NA) jointly in Madhes Province.
As per the agreement reached between the parties on Thursday, the two parties will field Usman Ansari (CPN-UML) and Rupa Kumari Yadav (DSP) during the polls scheduled for January 26 elections.
Ram Avatar Yadav, provincial chair of UML and Jitendra Sonal, DSP’s provincial chairman signed in the agreement paper.
Ruling parties ---- Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socliast) and Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), on the other hand, are contesting the elections jointly.
POKHARA, Jan 7: The ruling alliance and the main opposition party, CPN-UML is to face off for three vacant posts in the National Assembly in the upcoming by-election.
The ruling alliance comprises the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and Rastriya Janamorcha Party.
The tenure of NA members Dinanath Sharma and Khim Bahadur BK, elected from Maoist Center, and Shanti Kumari Pariyar, elected from CPN (US) are due to end this month.
Representing the ruling alliance, Maoist Center has fielded two candidates and the NC has fielded one candidate for the vacant posts.
Candidates
1) Suresh Ale Magar (Maoist Center)
2) Bhuvan Sunar ( Maoist Center)
3) Kamala Panta (Nepali Congress)
4) Punya Poudel (UML)
5) Arjun Sonam (UML)
6) Lila Pokharel Thaten (UML)
What is the status of votes?
Even though the CPN (UML) has a strong hold as a political party in Gandaki Province, the decision of the ruling alliance to contest in the NA by-polls joining their hands has made the main opposition party look weak.
CPN-UML, which possesses 27 seats in the provincial assembly, has altogether 1,296 votes. Likewise, the NC with 15 seats has 720 votes and the Maoist Center with 12 seats has 576 votes. Similarly, the JSP and Rastriya Janamorcha Party has 96 votes each.
Likewise, in the local level, the NC with 86 people’s representatives has 1,498 votes, Maoist Center with 12 representatives has 216 votes and Rastriya Janamorcha Party with three representatives has 54 votes.
Moreover, the CPN-UML with 70 people’s representatives at the local level has 1,260 votes.
KATHMANDU, May 7: The ruling CPN-UML has fielded Home Minister and party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ for the upcoming by-elections for a vacant seat in the National Assembly.
An informal meeting of UML’s Standing Committee on Thursday picked him as the candidate for the seat in the upper house from Bagmati Province.
The EC is holding by-polls to elect legislators in a vacant seat in the upper house of parliament that fell vacant after the former lawmaker Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, who was elected from the CPN (Maoist Center), was suspended as the member of parliament after he joined the ruling CPN-UML.
Opposition alliance including the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and ruling UML’s Nepal-Khanal faction has fielded Dr Khimlal Devkota.
Minister Thapa will contest election on UML’s symbol’ while Devkota will be contesting on the election symbol of Maoist party.
Thapa and Devkota reached Bagmati Province capital, Hetauda on Thursday and registered their candidacy.
The by-polls have been slated for May 20. The members of the province assembly and the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities will cast their votes. A total of 348 voters, including 110 province assembly members and 238 chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels are eligible to vote in the by-polls in Bagmati Province.