Sindhupalchowk-2 includes nine wards of Chautara Sangachokgadhi Municipality, Melamchi Municipality, Indrawati, Panchpokhari Thangpal, and Helambu Rural Municipality.
What you should know
This time, the election excitement has been added to the excitement of the contest between new and old candidates to attract voters in Sindhupalchowk-2. Former minister Sher Bahadur Tamang is the candidate from the UML in the constituency. He is being contested by Congress's Vansalal Tamang and 43-year-old Yubaraj Dulal from the Nepali Communist Party. The RPP and the RSP have fielded Engineer Gopikrishna Chaulagain and Jhalak Kumar Shrestha, respectively.
Former Law Minister Tamang is an experienced leader who has been contesting elections in this constituency since 2056 BS. Congress's Vanshalal has become a candidate for the House of Representatives for the first time. NCP's Dulal is a former provincial assembly member. Tamang became an MP for the second time in the 2079 BS election, defeating RPP Chairman Pashupati Shamsher. Tamang, who was defeated in the first Constituent Assembly election in 2064 BS, was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly in 2070 BS.
Tamang, who has been associated with the student organization ANRFSU, close to the MLA since school, became the UML district secretary in 2054 BS. He is a former UML Bagmati zone and central member. He had previously worked on infrastructure development such as roads and drinking water. This time he has made health, education and employment his agenda. Tamang, who became the member secretary of the Gumba Development Committee in 063 BS, was defeated by Mohan Bahadur Basnet of the Nepali Congress in the 079 House of Representatives member election.
Basnet received 39,367 votes and Tamang received 27,493 votes in that election. This time, Vanshlal has become the candidate from the Nepali Congress in place of Basnet. Dulal is facing a tough competition from the Nepali Communist Party. Vanshlal was elected as the chairman of Indrawati Rural Municipality in 074 BS. A former general secretary of the National Federation of Rural Municipalities, he started his political career through the Nepal Students' Union. A founding district member of the Nepali Sangh, he participated in the democratic movement of 046 BS.
In 042 BS, he participated in the peaceful Satyagraha against the then Panchayat in Kathmandu. He became the district chairman of the Nepali Sangh from 046 to 048 BS. In 046 BS, he became the district secretary from the Nepali Congress district member. Vansh Lal has set an agenda to usher in a new era in the district and work on education, roads, drinking water, electricity, health, and physical infrastructure.
Dulal, who was involved in the armed conflict waged by the then Maoists at a young age, has been elected as a member of the Bagmati Provincial Assembly twice from this area. He had contested and won from Sindhupalchowk 2 (1) in the 2074 and 2079 elections. He had worked as the Ministry of Social Development of Bagmati Province from 2074 to 2077 and as the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development from 2079 to 2081.
He said that if he wins, he will focus on infrastructure development such as education, health, and roads. He claims that he has fulfilled all the promises he made earlier.
Earlier, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had announced that Maya Gurung would be its candidate, but a controversy erupted after she was not given a ticket in the end. Maya is a famous mountaineer and the district president of the Nepali Congress Party. According to the election office, there are 274,998 voters in the district. There are 146 polling stations and 338 polling centers in the district. There are 131,696 female voters and 143,302 male voters. Sindhupalchowk-2 includes wards 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Chautara Sangachokgadhi Municipality, Melamchi Municipality, Indrawati, Panchpokhari Thangpal and Helambu Rural Municipality. There are 63 polling stations and 166 centers in this area. There are also 65,973 female voters and 72,400 male voters, for a total of 138,138 voters.
