He resigned from his position as a member of the Provincial Assembly to run for the House of Representatives from Dolakha on a ticket from the Nepali Congress.
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Kundan Raj Kafle, who resigned from the Nepali Congress provincial assembly to run for the House of Representatives, did not get a ticket to run for the House of Representatives.
He had resigned from the post of Provincial Assembly member to become a candidate for the House of Representatives from Dolakha on a ticket from the Nepali Congress. Kafle, who has also been the Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning of Bagmati Province, had presented his resignation to Deputy Speaker Apsara Chapagain at the Bagmati Province Assembly Secretariat in Hetauda on Monday.
Although he resigned from the Provincial Assembly member to become a candidate for the House of Representatives, he could not get a ticket. After not getting a ticket from the Nepali Congress, he said on Tuesday morning, "The people had said they would vote for him, but the Nepali Congress did not give him a ticket. Decisions are not made according to the people's wishes here. I was forced to resign after the people of Dolakha demanded it.
In Dolakha, which has only one constituency, the Nepali Congress has fielded former journalist Ajay Babu Shiwakoti.
Six members of the Bagmati Province Assembly have resigned from their posts with the intention of becoming candidates in the House of Representatives elections on Falgun 21. The term of the Provincial Assembly is until Mangsir 2084. According to the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, those who resigned are Kundan Raj Kafle of the Nepali Congress, Aman Kumar Maske and Prakash Shrestha of the UML, Yubaraj Dulal and Basanta Prasad Manandhar of the Nepali Communist Party, and Sunil KC of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP). Except for KC, all the MPs have already become provincial ministers.
Maske, Shrestha, Dulal, Manandhar, and KC had sent their resignations to the Provincial Assembly Secretariat via email. The party has already given them tickets.
