Ghimire said that he could not register his nomination within the deadline because the party's central committee informed him late about the decision to nominate him.
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Sankhuwasabha Communist leader Hemraj Ghimire, who had gone to Biratnagar to register his candidacy in the National Assembly elections on behalf of the NCP, was unable to become a candidate because he did not reach the Election Commission on time.
After the NCP candidate did not reach Biratnagar within the deadline set by the Election Commission, Nepali Congress' Sunil Bahadur Thapa has been elected unopposed in the open cluster from Koshi Province. The NCP had decided to field Ghimire from the same cluster.
Ghimire said that he could not register his nomination within the deadline because the party's central committee informed him late about the decision to field him. 'If the information had come on time, I would have reached the Election Commission,' he said. 'I could not register my candidacy because I received the information late.'
Ghimire had left for Biratnagar on a motorcycle from Khandbari, the district headquarters of Sankhuwasabha, at 1:30 pm on Wednesday. Since the Khandbari-Biratnagar journey would take at least five hours, it was not possible to reach the commission on time. 'It was said that we should walk at 12 pm. It was already 1:30 when I waited for the letter to arrive.'
Ghimire said that he only received the information that he had been nominated on Wednesday. He said that he left Khandbari in a hurry after the then Samajwadi Koshi Province President Sarita Khadka informed him, but it was too late.
Hemraj Ghimire is an experienced and old communist leader of Sankhuwasabha. He is not only the president of CPN-UML Sankhuwasabha but also the vice-president of District Development Committee Sankhuwasabha.
After the UML split, he became active in the Unified Socialist Party led by Madhav Nepal. Later, he became a central member of the Nepali Communist Party, which was formed by the unification of the Socialist Party, the CPN-Maoist Center and other leftist parties.
