As calls for an open discussion between the proposed candidates for Prime Minister continued to grow, KP Sharma Oli made it public that he was ready for the discussion.

However, you, Balendra Shah, have declared that you will not sit in on the discussion, calling Oli a murderer and saying that if you sit, you will be considered involved in the murder.

You entered the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) party by bargaining to propose yourself as the future Prime Minister and to be considered a senior leader. You chose Jhapa-5 because you want to defeat KP Oli. You are pursuing the ambition of becoming the Prime Minister in the near future by defeating the outgoing Prime Minister.

The Nepali Congress has proposed Gagan Kumar Thapa as the Prime Minister. The chairmen of other parties are also in the election race. If their party gets a majority or gets the opportunity to become the Prime Minister, the party chairmen will be the Prime Minister.

In the elections that are being held after so much speculation, it is not an additional desire for a person who is presenting himself as the Prime Minister of the nation to have a public hearing or demand for it. This is a legitimate expectation made by the people, which you have rejected.

You not only denied it, you also accused the other party under his Facebook status. The accusations you made are not just accusations, they are serious criminal accusations. Does making such serious accusations against the same person against whom you are standing in the election create or spoil the atmosphere of the election?

You rejected the discussion between the proposed candidates as Prime Minister. But, the voters of your area would have wanted to hear their candidates at one place and once! Can the residents and voters of Jhapa-5 ask questions to the candidates of their area in public on one platform or not?

You have left the post of mayor, which was elected by the voters of Kathmandu Metropolitan City for five years, and joined the party with a bargain and became a candidate. I, the voter of your area, do you have a platform to question you? I want to question the candidates of my constituency. The residents and citizens of my area want to ask questions. Do we have that platform? Are we listening to the voices of the citizens?

Why will the people of Jhapa-5 vote for Balendra Shah? Why should I vote for you? The answer to this is not just ‘because he rose up against KP Oli’!

‘A certain party has proposed him as the Prime Minister and the voters of Jhapa-5 should vote for him’.

You are the generation that came up with questions. Jhapa-5 now has the first right to ask you questions. If you are the Prime Minister after the election, all Nepali voters and citizens have the second right to ask you questions.

Your party president, who told KP Oli, ‘...standing on the same stage with the murderer of 76 children and his accomplices means that I too am involved in it,’ is also a person who has been accused of embezzling the savings of thousands of innocent citizens, collected one by one, by forming a gang and illegally acquiring wealth. So you are also a person who says that ‘citizens’ savings should be allowed to be misappropriated by the heads of cooperatives’.

Your own government (with an unconstitutional person you proposed as the head of the government and people who became ministers and advisors on your recommendation) decided to grant immunity to your party president, creating a false situation by putting the entire criminal justice system at stake. Are you the perpetrator or just an accomplice in all this?

Jhapa-5 is a unique example of cooperative agriculture, which is practicing collective farming and living in a collective way without even recognizing the boundaries of the land in its name. How do you, who have filed a candidacy in such a place, defend the cooperative case involving your president?

How will the savings of cooperative savers be returned? What will be the far-reaching impact of the practice of amending the case that was made to be done by pressuring and influencing the current head of the government and the state’s Attorney General? Do you know?

You have also seen Jhapa-5 using a dozer in the rain that is dripping on the huts of squatters on the banks of the river. This is an area with a large number of squatters. What is your view on squatters? Do squatters get to live and survive in your state or not?

In search of opportunity, people enter the market from the countryside, from the village to the city. They go from one district to another. They enter the capital of the country. Just as your parents came to the capital in search of opportunity, other citizens have also come to the capital. Your parents had a strong alternative, which made your life easier. The city, the road, is the place where those who do not have a viable alternative seek refuge. You also ruthlessly chased them away. Where will they find opportunity now? Is it okay to ask this question or not?

There is a generation that is idealizing you now. One of your Facebook statuses is a Brahmanical saying and slogan for them. ‘I cannot participate due to my age, you go and protest, I have moral support’. They said, ‘Balena Daai also said, now you have to go’ and joined the protest. Did they bring about the encounter or was there infiltration? Was it done? What should not have happened happened. Young brothers and sisters died. People who saw students being shot dead in front of their eyes protested. But, it was not just protest, it turned into destruction. It was seen that some people around you participated in it. Under the direction and participation of those same people, the fire of destruction was unleashed on all three organs of the state. Big media houses in the journalism sector, which is the fourth organ of the state, were badly attacked. The private properties of leaders, workers, employees, and businessmen were burned. When Deputy Chief Sunita Dangol's residence was burnt down, nothing was done to your residence. The streets searched for you. You were nowhere to be seen.

You yourself called for the 'dissolution of Parliament'. You proposed an unconstitutional person as the Prime Minister. You said, 'Talk to the army'. The fire brigade of Lalitpur Metropolitan came to put out the fire of the burning Supreme Court. No fire brigade of the metropolitan city where you are the head came to put out the fire of the burning Supreme Court, Singha Durbar.

You had once said, 'I will burn your Singha Durbar'. That mob also burned Singha Durbar. And, you are now dreaming of sitting on the biggest chair in that Singha Durbar. Can you be accused of being the cause of all these acts? Can you be asked that you are the source of all this? Can you be said to be a partaker in all these losses somewhere?

You did not vote for the province in the previous general election. And how can you believe that you promote federalism? While speaking in Janakpur the other day, you said, ‘You do not go to Kathmandu to get power, the power is with you, you go to Kathmandu to visit’. Federalism connects local bodies and provinces to Kathmandu in some way or the other. No matter how much power you have, you cannot be separated from Kathmandu. What kind of province and local level are you envisioning by only going to Kathmandu to visit?

You are a tourist for Jhapa-5, who does not know Jhapa, does not know the citizens of Jhapa, does not know the problems of Jhapa. What does the land want? What are the expectations of the voters here? How can you address the expectations of these voters? How are the voters here ready to give their votes to a stranger who has come to Jhapa with the desire to become the Prime Minister? How can you consider a tourist as ‘yours’?

Do you have any idea that a development model like laying granite on the Durbar Marg roads by spending state money may not be sold in Jhapa?

A helpless citizen who is looking for a way to make a living on the streets has been chased away from your city. A citizen who lives on the banks of the river despite the fear of garbage and floods is scared of you. There are similar citizens in my area too. How does that citizen trust you and vote for you? How do you win the trust of that citizen? It is not about asking for votes, but about earning them. How do you ask for votes from those common people? How do you convince them?