Local level people’s representatives resign to become candidates for the House of Representatives, where is the ‘heavyweight’ competition taking place?

लगानी न्यूज

६ माघ २०८२, मंगलवार १५:०८January 20, 2026

. With the beginning of the candidacy filing process for the House of Representatives election scheduled for March 4, some people’s representatives of the local levels have resigned from their posts and started registering their candidacies.

Mayors, deputy mayors, ward chairpersons and ward members of metropolis, sub-metropolis, municipalities and rural municipalities are filing their candidacies for the member of the House of Representatives.TAG_OPEN_div_35 KATHMANDU: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has registered his candidacy for Jhapa Constituency-5.

He reached the office of the returning officer at Damak Municipality-8 and filed his nomination.TAG_OPEN_div_33 Shah, who was elected mayor of Kathmandu as an independent candidate in the local elections of 2079 BS, has now entered politics aspiring for the post of prime minister. The constituency has been keenly watched as CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli is also contesting from the constituency.

Bharatpur Metropolitan City Mayor Renu Dahal has resigned from her post and is preparing to file her candidacy for the House of Representatives election from Chitwan Constituency No. 3.TAG_OPEN_div_31 The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has fielded Dahal, who has already led Bharatpur district for two terms.

Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City Mayor Harka Sampang has resigned from his post and filed his candidacy for the House of Representatives from Sunsari-1.TAG_OPEN_div_29 He was elected as an independent candidate in the local election of 2079 BS and also the chairman of the Labour and Culture Party. Manoj Bhattarai has resigned from the post of ward chairman of Dharan Sub-metropolis-17 and is pitted against Sampang, who has been projecting himself as the future prime minister. Bhattarai, who was elected ward chairman for two consecutive terms in the local level elections of 2074 BS and 2079 BS, was elected as a candidate from the Nepali Communist Party (NCP).

In this way, not only the chiefs of the local levels, but also the ward chairpersons and ward members are participating in the election to the House of Representatives.TAG_OPEN_div_27

Sushil Sah Kanu of Birgunj Metropolitan City-10 and Ram Kishor (Parag) Singh of Ward No 20 have been elected as the candidates for the House of Representatives.TAG_OPEN_div_25 Kanu is contesting from Parsa constituency-2 from Rastriya Swatantra Party while Singh is contesting from Ujjyalo Nepal Party.

Chairman of Kaligandaki Rural Municipality of Syangja, Khim Bahadur Thapa, has also been elected to the House of Representatives from Syangja constituency-2 without completing his second term.TAG_OPEN_div_23 He has been fielded by the CPN-UML. Likewise, Asmita Thapa, vice-chairperson of Likhu Rural Municipality of Okhaldhunga is also contesting the House of Representatives election. Thapa was fielded from the UML.

Asim Rai, the mayor of Thulung Dudhkoshi Rural Municipality in Solukhumbu district, has resigned from his post and filed his candidacy for the House of Representatives election from Solukhumbu on behalf of the Communist Party of Nepal.TAG_OPEN_div_21

With the beginning of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) registration process in all 165 constituencies across the country, the people’s representatives who had worked for a short time in the leadership of the local level have joined the election with the goal of reaching Singha Durbar directly through the federal parliament.TAG_OPEN_div_19 This has made the upcoming elections more competitive and interesting.