Most of the 18 candidates contesting in Kavre Constituency No. 1 are new faces.
What you should know
Eighteen candidates have registered their candidacies in Kavre's Constituency No. 1 for the House of Representatives elections to be held on Falgun 21. Most of the 18 candidates in Constituency No. 1 are new faces. This time, the election in this constituency will see a competition between new faces.
Gunaraj Muktan, who has registered his candidacy from the Nepali Congress in Constituency No. 1, is a new face for the House of Representatives elections. He claims that he has filed his candidacy in the election with the ideas, feelings, problems, needs and questions of the youth with the aim of making the country strong, prosperous and cultured with new thinking and change. He said that he has come to the people to build the country that the youth want, spreading a ray of new hope.
Muktan is the secretary of the district working committee of the Nepali Congress. Muktan, who emerged from student politics, was elected as the president of Nevisangh Kavre Constituency No. 1 and served as the president for two terms. He served as the secretary of Constituency No. 1 for two terms.
After student politics, Muktan, who became the president of the former Bhimkhori village unit, also led social organizations. He served as the central president of the Community School Management Committee Federation of Nepal, a member of the Bagmati Province Policy and Planning Commission, a member of the High-Level Education Commission, and the president of the Nangsal Association.
Amit Lama has registered his candidacy from the CPN-UML. He said that he had filed his candidacy in the election to protect the constitution and develop the country. Stating that the constitution and the country were in danger after the Gen-G movement, Lama said that he had come to the field to protect it and that he was confident that he would be successful with the people's votes.
Lama, who was elected as a central member in the recently concluded 11th National Convention of UML, had started his political journey from Youth Association Nepal. Lama, who held the posts of central member, treasurer and three-term vice-president in the Youth Association, served in various responsibilities in the Kavrepalanchok District Committee of UML for three terms and was elected as a provincial committee member before being elected to the Central Committee.
Dinanath Gautam, who has registered his candidacy from the Nepali Communist Party in Constituency No. 1, is a new face in the election for the House of Representatives. He has already been elected in the previous local level elections. He said that he filed his candidacy with the aim of ensuring good governance and transparency by eliminating the development disparities seen from the local level to the federal level. He said that he had set a goal of sustainable development through people-oriented policy formulation, maximum utilization of local resources and direct participation of the people.
Dinanath Gautam, who joined the organization through Akhil Chhaitha in 2035, had entered active politics since 2041. He became a member of CPN Masal in the same year and became a district member of CPN Ekta Kendra in 2048. Gautam, who was involved in the teaching profession since 2041, went underground with the outbreak of the People's War in 2052.
He was the district secretary of Kavre and Ramechhap from Falgun in 2053 and was arrested in 2056. After his release, he took on the responsibility of secretary in various districts and took on the responsibility of co-in-charge in Kavre in 2065. Gautam, who was the district president and central member in 2069, became the district in-charge in 2073. In the 2074 elections, he became the chairman of Chaurideurali Rural Municipality.
Madhu Kumar Chaulagain, who was not a formal member of any political party before, has registered his candidacy from the National Independent Party in Constituency No. 1. Advocate Chaulagain has been associated with the National Independent Party since 2079. Chaulagain is currently the regional president of Kavre Constituency No. 1. He said that he entered active politics expressing dissatisfaction with social injustice, legal discrimination and lack of good governance. According to him, entering politics is not a personal desire but a protest against the unequal application of law in society and the weakness of the state machinery.
He said that the main objective of filing his candidacy is regional development and improving the living standards of the people. His primary agenda is to fill the gap in access to higher education in the hilly areas, convert Namobuddha and Narayanthan hills into tourism hubs, establish a technical school for herbal research and processing, and reactivate the historic copper mine in Chaurideurali.
Nawaraj Satyal has registered his candidacy from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in Constituency No. 1 of the House of Representatives. Satyal, who was the RPP's Kavre district senior vice-president, is now a new face in the House of Representatives by running for the post of mayor of Namobuddha Municipality in the last local level election.
He said that he entered politics in 2079 BS with the aim of protecting the country's religion, culture and national existence. He expressed concern that the country unified by Prithvi Narayan Shah is now becoming a stronghold of foreign influence, that young people are migrating abroad and that only the elderly are confined to the villages.
He said that he has filed his candidacy with a campaign to fight corruption and bring back the youth who have gone abroad. He said that his main agenda is to develop Kavre district as a tourism center and to solve the problems of internal roads, transportation and infrastructure. Stating that he entered politics with the aim of saving the country after leaving business, he clarified that he joined the Rastriya Prajatantra Party because it is a party that protects the soil, religion and nationality.
Looking at the past results,
In the House of Representatives elections held in 2079 BS, CPN-Maoist candidate Suryaman Dong won in Constituency No. 1 by getting 34,512 votes. His nearest rival, CPN-UML candidate Resham Lama, got 30,548 votes, while Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Basunarayan Shrestha got 8,697 votes.
Ganga Bahadur Tamang won the 2074 BS House of Representatives member election in Constituency No. 1 with 43,631 votes. Similarly, his nearest rival, Nepali Congress candidate Tirtha Lama, got 39,605 votes. Gautam's party had won the election in both the previous elections by forming an alliance with UML and Congress alternately.
