Kathmandu-6: Voters say they come to the election like a bow and don’t care later.
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. As the date for the upcoming election to the House of Representatives draws closer, the election excitement is increasing. The election heat has heated up the country after the Election Commission opened the way for election publicity from February 17. At present, the leaders of the political parties are busy in the doorsteps of the voters. Voters are being greeted by the candidates. Voters are also expressing their sadness that these leaders are greeted only during elections and are not paid attention at other times.
Similar campaign is underway in Kathmandu Constituency No. 6 as well.TAG_OPEN_div_82 There is an interesting presence among the candidates in this area as well. Voters are watching the activities of the candidates. Some voters are asking questions about what they have done in the past and what they need to do now. Some are seen silently supporting the candidates, while some are seen asking counter-questions.
Here you can see the candidates answering the voters and asking for votes on the basis of their manifestos. Bishnu Lamichhane, a voter of Tarkeshwor, said that the need of the hour is to create an environment where the citizens can easily get government services by ensuring health, education and employment. Stating that the candidates should pay attention to this, Lamichhane said, “I have not met the candidates so far. I ask the same question as how to solve the problems of drinking water, reliable and safe roads in the village, and sewerage. ”
Kathmandu Region No. 6 is divided into three different types of geographical locations.TAG_OPEN_div_78 There is a major city area which falls within Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Lainchaur, Bagbazaar and other places are also in this area. The other central area is a little farther from the metropolis and a little lower than Kanth, some wards of Tokha and Tarakeshwor municipalities. It includes the place where many people migrated to the city and became a city. There are other thorny areas such as chains and ridges. The three geographies have different psychology and different problems.
Locals say it will be important how the candidates address these areas after they win.TAG_OPEN_div_76 “We don’t need anything else. We should have provided an environment to work well and eat well,” Rammaya Sharma of Tokha asks, adding, “They come to the election saying that they will do this and that, but later they do not care, all the leaders are the same.” Did you have to fulfill what you said after becoming a leader?
The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has fielded its candidates in the constituency while the Nepali Congress and the CPN (UML) have changed their candidacies.TAG_OPEN_div_74 Meanwhile, the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has fielded Himal (Himlal) Sharma as its candidate in the second Constituent Assembly election in 2070 BS. Here too, the candidates of the major parties are seen as the main contenders.
There are a total of 20 candidates in Kathmandu constituency-6, out of which five are contesting as independents.TAG_OPEN_div_72 CPN-UML’s Aman Kumar Maskey, Nepali Congress’s Krishna (Sabuj) Baniya and Nepal Communist Party’s Hemlal Sharma and Rastriya Swatantra Party’s Shishir Khanal are in the fray. It is said that the main competition will be between the four of them.
Similarly, Uddhav Raj Bhetwal of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Waris Dharel of Ujjyalo Nepal Party, Indra Kumari Bajracharya of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and Jagat Prasad Regmi of Rastriya Janamorcha are also in the fray.TAG_OPEN_div_70
Kathmandu: CPN-UML candidate Aman Kumar Maskey has resigned from the Bagmati Province Assembly seat in Kathmandu-6.TAG_OPEN_div_68 He has the experience of being the Minister of Physical Infrastructure Development of the state. Baniya is the president of Nepali Congress Kathmandu. He had also presided over the recently concluded special general convention of the Nepali Congress. Similarly, Himal Sharma came from the student politics of the then Maoist party. Shishir Khanal of the Rastriya Samajwadi Party (RSP) is contesting the election in 2079 BS. He also served as the Minister for Education and Science and Technology for a brief period when Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the Prime Minister of the Communist Party of Nepal.
Krishna Shrestha of Manamaiju runs a shop.TAG_OPEN_div_66 He is not satisfied with the work done by the people’s representatives so far. Shrestha says, “Development has not yet reached this sector, it should be done better, creating an environment where the life of the citizens can run smoothly and a situation where those who work and eat are comfortable.” The candidates should pay attention to this. According to him, attention should be paid to health, education, employment, development road, stopping youths migration along the road, creating employment opportunities and exploring industries and factories, creating business environment in agriculture and maintaining peace and security.
There are 79 polling stations in 32 polling stations in Kathmandu constituency-6.TAG_OPEN_div_64 Of the total 67,759 voters in the constituency, 51.59 per cent or 34,956 are women. There are 32,802 male voters or 48.41 per cent of the voters. In 2022, there were 62,102 voters in the district.
The constituency comprises Wards 26, 27 and 28 of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Wards 1, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of Tokha Municipality and Wards 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of Tarakeshwor Municipality.TAG_OPEN_div_62 This area is located from the main urban area of Kathmandu to Kanth. The area occupies Samakhusi, Lainchaur, Bagbazaar, Mahabouddha, Durbar High School, Jyatha, Kamaladi, Old Bus Park, Exhibition Road of Bhrikutimandab, Golkupakha, Tokha and Tarakeshwor municipalities.
Kathmandu constituency number 6 covers Sangla, Kavresthali, Dharmasthali, Phutung, Dandachaur, Manamaiju, Nepaltar, Aishwarya Nagar, Gongabu, Gairigaun, Manohara and Jhora of Tokha.TAG_OPEN_div_60 Kathmandu Region No. 6 is also home to diverse settlements and problems. Voters say there is a different problem in the region, while the main core is a different problem in Asia.
What do the candidates say?
Candidates are going to various programs and door-to-door voters to present their election agendas and ask for votes. They are also sharing their plans for development and prosperity with the voters. On the occasion, Rastriya Samajwadi Party candidate Khanal said that Nepal should be made a respectable middle-income country in the next 10 years.
} He says, “This time we want the transformation of the country, we need a big majority for the desire of prosperity and good governance.” Like the previous time, there was a lesson that no work could be done if the government had to be formed together with different parties. We are going to the people saying that if we do not do concrete work for good governance and prosperity, we will not have to vote for it next time. ”
Likewise, NCP candidate Sharma said that a new debate on generational transfer has begun and it is necessary to implement education, health and employment as guaranteed in the constitution but not implemented.TAG_OPEN_div_52 “I will play a role in bringing economic prosperity in the country by changing the governance structure, increasing production and creating employment opportunities,” he said. “I will work to formulate necessary laws to enforce the fundamental rights such as education, health and employment in favour of the people,” Sharma said.
UML candidate Maskey said that he wants to be a friend of the people here in their sorrows and sorrows.TAG_OPEN_div_50 “I am conscious of the need of making every community including women capable and economically empowered and to do something for this land,” she said, adding that she had carried out a lot of development works while being in the State Assembly.
He says, “Politics is pure service, I believe that and I am dedicated to the service of the citizens.”TAG_OPEN_div_48 He said that it was necessary to develop a system to ensure easy access to service to the people while going to pay tax or to get services in any agency.
Nepali Congress candidate Baniya said that he would stand as an agent of change as the people and the citizens by going to the doorsteps of the voters.TAG_OPEN_div_46 He also pledged to work to fulfill the voices of the citizens. He said, “The election is being held for the situation in which we have to face all challenges in the sustainable development and changing situation and the NC should win for that.” Dharel of Ujyalo Nepal said his goal was to lead the younger generation towards entrepreneurship by utilizing the knowledge and skills he has learned abroad.
In the 2017 parliamentary election, Shishir Khanal of Rastriya Samajwadi Party (RSP) had won from Kathmandu-6 with 14,221 votes or 38.01 per cent of the votes.TAG_OPEN_div_44 His nearest rival was left alliance’s Narayan Kaji Shrestha who got 9,917 votes. That’s 23 total votes. 84 percent.
Bhimsen Das Pradhan of the Nepali Congress, who had won the previous two elections consecutively, had won the election.TAG_OPEN_div_42
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