KC from Sundarbazar, Lamjung, had contested the 2079 House of Representatives elections from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and secured 9,029 votes.
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Lamjung District Committee has recommended Dharmaraj KC as the sole candidate for the direct election to the House of Representatives scheduled to be held on Falgun 21.
Ashok Sapkota, coordinator of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Lamjung, said that a joint meeting of provincial committee members, district working committee office bearers and members, municipalities and ward committees that have concluded their conventions and have ad hoc committees, as well as various level committees formed in the district unanimously recommended KC's name.
He said that a joint meeting held at the District Office in Besisahar on Tuesday decided to recommend KC, who is the founding president of the district party and is currently a member of the Central Organization Department, as a single candidate for the direct election to the House of Representatives.
'KC has been recommended as a candidate based on his contribution to the organization, experience and leadership ability,' Sapkota said. KC, from Sundarbazar in Lamjung, had filed his candidacy from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the 2079 House of Representatives election and secured 9,029 votes.
In that election, the then Deputy General Secretary of the CPN (UML) Prithvi Subba Gurung was elected from Lamjung with 34,969 votes. The closest rival, the candidate of the Congress-Maoist Center alliance, Dev Prasad Gurung, the then general secretary of the CPN-Maoist Center, had secured 31,781 votes.
Regarding the issue of KC being recommended as a single candidate, the Secretary of the Central Migration Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Padmaraj Panthi, writing a status on the social network Facebook, claimed that according to the party policy, no candidate needs the recommendation of the district or constituency.
‘The statement that the name was recommended as the recommendation of the district is completely wrong,’ he wrote. He also called on interested party members from Lamjung to file their candidacies by the 26th.
The RSS, on the other hand, stated that it had already campaigned for his name as a proportional candidate and therefore did not formally recommend it. Before the RSS submitted its closed list, Panthi had campaigned saying that he had a claim to be a proportional candidate. However, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) did not include him in the closed list due to his low voter turnout in the primary elections, a RSSP source said.
Nitish Silwal, a central member of the then Ujjaya Nepal Party, who had been aspiring to become a candidate, has also not been recommended. He has been in discussions to contest from Lamjung. He had received 618 votes in the 2074 BS election while in the Bibeksheel Sajha Party and 127 votes as an independent candidate from Kathmandu-6 in 2079 BS.
