Nine people from Karnali have been included in the list of proportional candidates submitted by the NCP to the Election Commission for the House of Representatives elections to be held on February 21. The closed list submitted by the NCP includes 5 people from the former Unified Socialist Party and 4 from the former Maoists.

The former Maoist camp includes Pancha Singh of Surkhet, Ganga Khadka of Kalikot, Gopal Pariyar of Dailekh, Jhakku Prasad Gharti of Rukum West and Parbati BK of Jajarkot. Of these, Singh was the former president of the former Akhil Krantikari, while Gharti is the former president of Triveni Rural Municipality.

Similarly, from the former Unified Socialist Party, Tirtha Bahadur Budha of Jumla, Krishna Bahadur Budha of Jajarkot, Jayananda Rawal of Mugu and Sharada Damai of Salyan have been included in the proportional list.

Although Budha was directly recommended from Jajarkot, he has been placed in the proportional quota for Khas Arya, while Damai of Salyan was not recommended by the party district committee. This has led to controversy in the party. While recommending proportional candidates, the NCP had recommended nearly 80 names for various clusters. 

NCP central member Basanta Kumar Bishwakarma alleged that despite the constitutional provision made to bring backward regions and communities into the mainstream of the state based on the principle of inclusion, the political structures are still in the hands of the dominant class.