Active on social media, people from all ages to the elderly are asking the candidates about the future of their children and how to find a way out of the growing instability in the country, and what their plans are for that.
Candidates from two constituencies in West Nawalparasi have started going door-to-door to campaign. Voters are reminding the candidates of their old promises as they seek votes.
Currently, candidates are meeting leaders and activists and going door-to-door to seek votes. The Election Commission has stated that meetings, rallies and campaigns can be held only from Falgun 4. Therefore, candidates are visiting voters' homes, understanding their problems, and reviewing whether or not their previous commitments have been fulfilled. However, voters are looking for reasons for not fulfilling their previous commitments and a basis for working in the coming days.
People from all age groups active on social media, including the elderly, are asking questions about the future of their children and how to get out of the growing instability in the country, and what their plans are for that. 'Candidates have started coming to meet and holding discussions in neighborhoods,' said Rajesh Shrestha of Bardaghat-5. 'Voters are now looking for people's representatives who can not only win elections, but also have access to the center and bring budgets and plans, and who can be open to new thinking and ideas.'
The main occupation of the people of the southern part of the district is agriculture. They have been cultivating sugarcane and bananas. Since the arrival of Indians, Nepali farmers have not sold their bananas and they are rotting in the fields. The problem of sugarcane farmers is the same. The sugar mills are not paying on time and the government is not giving them proper prices and subsidies even though it has declared it a cash crop. They say that they need a public representative who can guarantee the market for the produce rather than just giving assurances.
‘Our source of income is sugarcane farming.’ We will vote for the candidate who will fix the price on time, provide subsidy on fertilizers and seeds and arrange for sugar mills to purchase sugarcane in cash,' said Rakesh Yadav of Pratappur-6, 'Now we will elect a candidate who can do the work of the people rather than the party.'
In West Nawalparasi-1, central member Binod Chaudhary from the Congress, Hridaysh Tripathi from the Janata Samajwadi Party, Ram Prasad Pandey from the UML, Bikram Khanal from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Sindhu Jalesa from the Nepali Communist Party are candidates. Before this, the victorious Chaudhary is on a strategy to win a second victory. Tripathi is in the race to return the legacy. Pandey, Jalesa and Khanal are waiting for their first victory. In West Nawalparasi-2, Dhruv Bahadur Pradhan from the RPP, Bhim Bahadur Thapa from the Congress, Lekhnath Kharel from the UML, Devendra Poudel from the Nepali Communist Party, Narendra Gupta from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and Devendra Yadav from the JSP are in the fray.
