There are 22 candidates in the election contest in Gulmi-2, including 10 parties and 12 independents. All the candidates from other parties competing with Gokarna Bista this time are new.
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All the faces competing against UML candidate Gokarna Bista in Gulmi-2 in the upcoming House of Representatives elections to be held on Falgun 2 are new.
Bista, who is also the central vice-chairman of the CPN-UML, has been contesting elections in this constituency since 2056 BS and has won all elections except 2064 BS.
All the candidates competing with the UML candidate Bista this time are new. Including this time, Bista is competing for the sixth time and is competing with new candidates five times. This time, Bista from the UML, Lumbini Province Vice-President Bhuwan Prasad Shrestha from the Congress, central member Shriram Mahat from the CPN and Govinda Panthi from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are in the main competition in this constituency. In Gulmi, 22 candidates, including 10 from the party and 12 independents, are in the election competition.
All the candidates from other parties competing with Bista this time are new. Earlier, the current leader of the CPN-UML, Ram Kumari Jhankri, was a joint candidate with the Congress-Maoist from the then CPN-Unified Socialist Party.
According to the Election Commission, the CPN-UML candidate in this constituency under the 2079 House of Representatives election Bisht won by getting 28,476 votes. His nearest rival, Jhankri of the then Unified Socialist Party, was defeated by a margin of 2,35 votes. Jhankri got 26,441 votes. In the 2074 election, Bisht was up against Chandra KC of the Nepali Congress. At that time, Bisht won the election by a margin of more than 14,000 votes. Before that, Trailokya Pratap Sen of the Nepali Congress was the main competitor in the 2070 election. At that time, Bisht won the election by a margin of more than 6,000 votes. In 2064, Bisht was defeated by Chandra Bahadur Thapa of the CPN-Maoist Center by a margin of 2,000 votes. At that time, Suresh Chandra Bhusal was the candidate from the Nepali Congress. At that time, Bisht was up against Trailokya Pratap Sen of the Nepali Congress in the 2056 election. At that time, Bista won the election by a margin of 2,200 votes. Bista, who entered parliamentary politics as a member of the House of Representatives at the age of 34, became a minister twice. He has lost the election only once.
This time, the competition seems to be interesting as all the competitors against Bista in this area are new.
If we look at the votes in the proportional representation of the House of Representatives election 2079 in this area, the UML received 25,130 votes, the Congress 18,451 votes, the then CPN-Maoist Center, the current Nepali Communist Party 5,437 votes, and the National Independent Party 4,263 votes.
