Tek Prasad Gurung is the Congress candidate in Chitwan-3. Sobita Gautam, 30, from the National Independent Party (NISP), and Renu Dahal, who is not even 50 years old, from the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), are also in the fray in this constituency.

Shankar Thapaliya of UML is 56 years old. Gurung of Congress is an old politician from Chitwan who has been elected in elections 56 years ago. Gurung, 77, is the oldest of the 23 candidates from Chitwan-3. Gurung is the oldest of the 64 candidates from Chitwan, which has three constituencies. “I am the oldest of the candidates fielded by Congress in 165 constituencies across the country,” Gurung said. He said that Congress sent him to the field thinking that he could win the hearts of all the party’s well-wishers and voters. Gurung’s campaign has increased after he filed his candidacy in 19 out of 29 seats in Bharatpur Metropolitan City and Chitwan-3, which includes Madi Municipality. Like other competitors, he visited Madi only once. He is currently focused on Bharatpur. On Sunday morning, he started meeting voters in Bharatpur-13. He posted a photo of himself eating roasted corn at the house of Ganesh Poudel, a martyr of the 2046 BS movement, on Facebook. After the dissolution of the parliament due to the Genji movement of Bhadra 23 and 24, every party has started a wave of promoting the youth in the upcoming Falgun 21 elections according to the spirit of Genji. Meanwhile, Gagan Thapa of the new generation became the president of the Congress through a special general convention. Gurung became a central member from the fourth general convention.

'Even though I am mature in age, I am a person who understands the feelings of the youth. Because I have been contesting elections in Chitwan since I was 21 and have been becoming a people's representative. Therefore, I am aware of the feelings of the voters, the problems of the district and the region, the feelings and desires of the youth,' Gurung said. He said that he did not demand it but became a candidate because the party entrusted him with the responsibility.

Chitwan-3: Congress-UML field their own candidate for the first time after the constitution was promulgated.

Congress has fielded a candidate for the first time in Chitwan-3 after the constitution was promulgated. In the Bharatpur Metropolitan City election, Congress did not field a mayor after forming an alliance with the then Maoist Center twice. In the 2074 House of Representatives election, it supported the candidate of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and in the 2079 election, it supported the candidate of the then Maoist Center.

When Congress supported it, the then Maoist Center candidate Renu Dahal won the mayoral race of Bharatpur twice. But when Congress supported it in the parliamentary constituency, both candidates were defeated. In the 2079 parliamentary election, Congress central member Dinesh Koirala ran as an independent. Despite being supported by the UML, he finished fourth. Even in proportional representation, Congress came fifth.

In the 2048 BS parliamentary elections, there were three constituencies in Chitwan, which later became five constituencies. The current constituency number 3 was sometimes divided into 4 and sometimes 4 and 5. In these constituencies, when seven elections were held between 2048 BS and 2079 BS, Congress candidates won the Constituent Assembly elections of 2051 BS, 2056 BS and 2070 BS.

These parties included indigenous and female candidates in Chitwan

The Congress, which did not win a single constituency in Chitwan in the first election for Constituent Assembly members, made the then central president of the party Sushil Koirala win from Chitwan-4 in the Constituent Assembly elections held for the second time in 2070 BS. The geography which is now in Chitwan-3.

Gurung says that the responsibility of restoring the old legacy in the area under Chitwan-3, which was considered a good base for the party in the past, has been entrusted to the shoulders of old leaders. Gurung says that the party sent him after the Congress did not field a candidate in this area, where the RPP candidate won twice on its own, and the Congress's hold on the region was waning as the candidates of other parties it supported also failed to win.

Born in Syangja in 2005, Gurung has been living in Chitwan since 2017. He was first elected as the ward chairman of Ward 3 of the then Shardanagar Village Panchayat in Baisakh 2026. Then, he was elected as the Pradhan Panchayat in 2029. In the 2035 election, he became the Pradhan Panchayat of Shivnagar.

In 2035, he became the president of the Chitwan District Panchayat. Gurung said that the then government suspended that committee for being pro-democracy during the referendum. In 2039, he was again elected as the president of the District Panchayat. Gurung became the president of the Chitwan District Panchayat for the third time in 2044 BS. Gurung had become a candidate in the 2043 BS National Panchayat member election due to his desire to go from ward to village to district to the central body. Gurung came fifth in the election at that time under the system of electing the two candidates who got the most votes in the first and second places from the entire district. After the introduction of multi-party politics, he became a candidate from the Nepali Congress for the first time in the 2051 BS election. Gurung was the closest competitor in that election. Gurung had been a candidate from the then Constituent Assembly member constituency number 4 in Chitwan in the 2064 BS election. He was the only closest competitor in this too. Gurung, who has been successful in local elections time and again, has not been able to get elected despite being a candidate for the higher level. 'If we unite the Congress, we will come first not only in this area but also in Chitwan.' I have been taking the initiative to understand the problems here and solve them. "My friends in the Congress are happy with my candidacy," Gurung said. He claimed that he is well-known among the new generation and voters because he has been active in politics.