Bhim Shreesh of Jaimini Municipality-10, Baglung, who rose to prominence in student politics at Tribhuvan University, has now become a Congress candidate for the House of Representatives in Constituency No. 1.
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The leader, who worked for the rights of students as the president of the Independent Students Union of Nepal's largest and oldest Tribhuvan University 20 years ago, is now running for a seat in the House of Representatives.
He now wants to enter Singha Durbar and Parliament with the people's file. Bhim Shrish of Jaimini Municipality-10 in Baglung, who rose to leadership after garnering attention in student politics at that time, has now become a candidate for the House of Representatives from Congress in Constituency No. 1.
Shrish was the president of the Self-Union of Tribhuvan University Central Campus from 2062 to 2065 BS and was also a member of the Tribhuvan Assembly. He served four terms in the Self-Union of Tribhuvan University. He became the 'Man of the Election' in any election. He is known as the leader who won the election on his own from the Nepali Sangh after serving two terms as a member, vice-president and president and won by hundreds of votes more than the panel. Former students of Tribhuvan University say that while he was in the Self-Union, he worked without political discrimination.
He was elected as the district general convention representative and general committee member in the 12th, 13th and 14th general conventions of the Nepali Congress. Shrish, who is also the central referee of the Cricket Association CAN, was the president of the Kirtipur Cricket Stadium when it was built. He also worked on the construction committee at that time. Shrish, who holds a master's degree in microbiology in science and political science and rural development in humanities, was elected as a central member of the Nepali Congress from the recently concluded special general convention.
Shrish, who has been a cricket referee wearing an umbrella cap at the Kribi Cricket Stadium many times, is currently meeting voters in Baglung constituency number 1. 'Whether he was studying on campus or on the cricket field, Bhim Shrish was known as an honest person,' says Laxman Acharya, a former student of Tribhuvan University. 'While working, he never said that he was his own and someone else's.'
Shrish's rival, UML leader Hira Bahadur KC, was also the president of the SBU from 2057 to 2059. KC, who also became the district president of ANRFSBU Baglung and the central vice-president of the UML's youth organization, the National Youth Association, has served as the president of UML Baglung for two terms.
KC was a candidate for the second Constituent Assembly in 2070 and the Provincial Assembly in 2079. In the Constituent Assembly in 2070, he was defeated by Congress leader Hari Bahadur Khadka and in the Provincial Assembly election in 2079 by Congress leader Dipendra Bahadur Thapa. Krishna Adhikari of the RJD and Sushil Khadka of the RSVP are in the fray to challenge Shrish.
