By-elections are being held in Lumbini for one municipal vice president and 5 ward presidents
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In the local level by-elections to be held on November 16, the UML candidate for the vice-chairmanship of Puthauttarganga Rural Municipality of Rukum East of Lumbini Province is going to contest from the Congress symbol tree.
According to the agreement between the two parties, the UML candidate will contest against the Maoists from the tree symbol.
Before nominating candidates on Sunday, the two parties have reached a written agreement. According to the agreement, District Committee Deputy Secretary of UML Keshakumari Tulachan has become a common candidate on behalf of both parties. She is also a central member of Anem Sangh, a women's organization close to the UML.
Puthauttarganga is a municipality with a strong base of Maoists . In the local elections of 2079, the Maoist candidate won twice as many votes as the Congress-UML candidate. The Maoists have nominated Narpura Budha as the vice president of Puthauttarganga.
In the last election, Bhupendra Budha of the Maoist center was elected in Puthauttarganga rural municipality by getting 4 thousand 59 votes. Congress's Kamalakumari Malla got 2 thousand 10 votes and UML's Dharma Gharti Budha got 1 thousand 812 votes. There are 11 thousand 180 voters in Putha. By-elections are about to be held after Budha, who won from the Maoist center, died in a car accident in Baglung in October.
along with the vice president of Putha Uttarganga ward no. Congress-UML has also made a common candidate in 2 . In the ward, UML's district committee member Jeevan Roka has been made a common candidate. Roka has become a candidate from UML's election symbol. Ward no. After the death of Jas Bahadur Sripali, who was elected from the Maoists in 2018, by-elections are about to be held. In the last election, Sripali got 234 votes and Karna Bahadur Budha of Congress got 179 votes.
Congress District President Kesharman Roka said that it has been agreed that both the parties will make a common candidate and contest the municipal and ward elections on the basis of a common manifesto. The memorandum of understanding has been signed by Congress President Roka and District President of UML Leelamani Gautam. UML President Gautam said that it has been agreed between the two parties to create a common mechanism for all the programs of the district and lead them alternately even after the election.
Similarly, 5 people namely Congress, UML, Maoist, RASWP and RPPA have registered their candidatures for the election to be held as the ward chairman of Musikot municipality-1 in Lumbini province . According to Prakash Kafle, President of UML of Musikot Municipality, Anand Shrestha from Congress, Dal Bahadur Thapa from UML, Durga Bahadur Bik from Maoist, Ishwari Thapa from RPPA and Vikas Thapa from RASWP have registered their candidature.
Mohan Ghimire of Congress was victorious in the 2079 election. Bye-elections for ward presidents are also being held in Rukum Purva, Gulmi, Rolpa's Runtigadhi Municipality-4, Kapilvastu's Suddhodhan Rural Municipality-1 and Bardia's Thakurbaba Municipality-4 along with Rukumpurva in Lumbini Province.
