Nepali Congress' Bheshraj Acharya, who lost to Subash Chandra Nembang in the 2070 Constituent Assembly elections, is in a contest this time with Subash's son, Suhang Nembang.

In the second Constituent Assembly election, Acharya was defeated by Nembang by 2,112 votes. At that time, UML's Subash Chandra Nembang got 14,930 votes while Congress's Acharya got 12,828 votes.

It seems that there will be an interesting competition between Acharya and Suhang, who competed with Subash Chandra Nembang 12 years ago. The competition between them is being discussed from the chowk to the Chautara to the tea room in Ilam. After registering their candidacies on Magh 6, 14 candidates, including Acharya and Nembang, are going door-to-door in Ilam-2.

While the candidates are busy meeting voters, voters are listening to the promises of the candidates and assessing their agendas. However, most parties have not made their commitments, agendas and manifestos public.

After the death of Constituent Assembly Chairman Nembang, who had won consecutive elections in Ilam-2, his son Suhang was elected from here in the by-election held on 15 Baisakh 2081. At that time, he was supported by the then Communist parties including the Maoists. At that time, Suhang was competing with Congress's Dambar Khadka. Suhang is competing with Acharya, who contested the election with his own father 12 years ago in his second election run.

Suhang says that he is confident that he will get the support of the voters here this time too due to the work he has done in the 16-month parliamentary practice and the work he has done for the district.

In every election since 2048, the Congress has been coming second in Ilam-2. Acharya is betting on turning the results in his favor this time in the context of a change in the party leadership. Acharya, who has been contributing to the social and political sector of Ilam for a long time, comments that it will be easy to win the election because the communist faction that collaborated with the UML in the previous election and his party are all competing alone.

In the 2079 House of Representatives election, Constituent Assembly Chairman Nembang had won from this constituency in Ilam-2 by getting 30,020 votes. At that time, Congress's Dambar Bahadur Khadka had received 29,906 votes, a narrow margin of 114 votes.

Before that, Nembang had defeated Congress candidate Keshav Thapa in the 2074 House of Representatives election. At that time, when he contested the election in a left-wing alliance with the Maoist Center, Nembang received 36,617 votes, while Congress's Thapa received 26,865 votes. An experienced and defeated leader, Acharya seems to be in the running to win by reversing the narrow margin of 2079.

There are 119,489 voters in this constituency. Looking at the results of the local elections and the previous elections, considering the public opinion of other parties and new candidates, it seems that the main competition this time will be between the UML and the Congress. However, as the National Independent Party, the Labor Culture Party, and the National Change Party have also intensified their organization-building and election-focused activities, locals estimate that the votes of the Congress and the UML will decrease more than before.

In the previous by-election, Suhang also had the support of the then Maoists, but now the alliance formed by other parties including the Maoists has its own candidate in the election field.