Before the 21 Falgun elections, Harkaraj Sampang Rai kept repeating that he would become the Prime Minister with a majority. He claimed that the Shram Sanskriti Party would get the support of the entire country. 

While there was a wave in favor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) across the country, voters outside of Koshi Province did not seem to have much faith in the Shram Sanskriti Party in the election results. However, while the Kulman Ghising-led Ujjaya Nepal Party and Madhesh-centric parties failed to become a national party, the Rai-led party is seen to be becoming a national party. 

Shram Sanskriti has won 3 seats in the direct elections and 3.37 percent of the votes in the proportional elections as of Tuesday morning. ‘The trust that the party has received in the last four months of its establishment is not bad, we will work in a way that everyone can be proud of,’ said party vice-chairman Loknath Chudal, ‘We will work in a way that will be even better in the next election.’

Earlier, Sampang, who was elected as the mayor of Dharan sub-metropolitan city as an independent candidate after being a social activist, has also received praise for his initiatives to solve the drinking water problem. Sampang, who won trust by working in Dharan, has indicated that he will play the role of a strong opposition after the RSVP’s single majority. ‘After the people elect him, everyone must accept it, but it would be better if Ravi (Lamichhane) led the government,’ he wrote on social media. ‘When people ask questions in the House, we need a leadership that answers and gives time, otherwise there will be chaos, people who do not speak cannot answer in detail.’

Sunsari-1, where Sampang himself was elected, includes wards 1 to 5 of Barahakshetra Municipality along with Dharan Sub-metropolitan City and Ramdhuni Municipality-6 and 7. Hark won with 35,741 votes, while his nearest competitor Goma Tamang got 27,249 votes. NCP candidate Surya Bahadur Bhattarai (Manoj), who was the chairman of Ward No. 18 when Hark was the mayor of Dharan, got 6,185 votes. 

In Bhojpur-1, Shram Sanskriti candidate Dhruvraj Rai defeated UML leader Sherdhan Rai, who is also the former Chief Minister of Koshi Province, with 16,663 votes. Rai got 14,750 votes. Congress candidate Balkrishna Thapa got 8,670 votes. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sanskriti candidate Ramesh Prasad Ojha came in fourth with 6,102 votes. 

Shram Sanskriti candidate Aren Rai won in Khotang-1. This is also the district where Hark was born. In Khotang, Rai was elected with 16,612 votes, while his nearest competitor Dev Bikram Rai of UML got 12,714 votes. Birkaji Rai of the Nepali Congress got 11,957 votes, Hari Roka of the Nepali Congress got 9,443 votes, and Rudra Giri of the Nepali Congress got 5,704 votes. 

The Shram Sanskriti candidate also got good votes in all the constituencies of Ilam-1 and 2, Morang-1 and 3, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Udayapur-1, and Jhapa. In proportional representation, this party has got 326,947 votes till Monday evening. After the Gen-G movement, Hark had come to Kathmandu on 25 Bhadra asking to take the leadership of the country and held talks with Army Chief Ashok Raj Sigdel. At that time, the Army Chief had adopted a policy of holding talks with all parties. However, Gen-G proposed former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the Prime Minister, and Sampang's supporters shouted slogans against it outside the military base. Later, the opposition subsided after Balendra Shah, the then mayor of Kathmandu, also approved Karki. 

Sampang had tried to enter national politics by taking a powerful ministry in the Karki-led cabinet. However, when the situation was not favorable, he registered a separate party. After receiving the party registration certificate on 16 Kartik, he started expanding the organization. 

When the unity dialogue was being held in Kathmandu between Balendra Shah, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) President Ravi Lamichhane and Kulman Ghising, he was away from that discussion. At that time, RSS leaders say that Sampang could not be brought to the discussion amid the pressure to have the faces involved in alternative politics in one place. Since Hark was constantly criticizing the RSS and Balendra, the leaders did not show much interest in contacting him at that time. However, Balendra would sarcastically write him 'I love you'. 

In the meantime, Hark stayed in Dharan and started building a party. At that time, his party leaders and activists were heard dissatisfied, saying that the Shram Sanskriti Party could only win in the eastern hilly districts. “Our candidates come from all over the country, this is the party that everyone who loves the soil will choose,” party general secretary Aryan Rai had told Kantipur before filing his nomination. “So whoever says this party will become a regional party, he does not understand our potential.”

Before the election, Sampang had put forward a political idea called ‘Harkism’. “There is no explanation for my name in this. This is our country’s ideology that talks about nature, culture, labor, stones and soil,” Hark had said. “We put this forward because we need to see what has grown in our own fields and whether there is irrigation or not, rather than playing politics by sticking to imported ideology from abroad.”