All my salary, allowances will go for social services: Maoist Mayor candidate of Kritipur Dr. Maharjan

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, May 3: Mayor candidate for Kritipur Municipality Prof. Dr. Shiva Sharan Maharjan has expressed commitment for educational advancement, good governance, enhancement of people's livelihood and health, and employment.

He said so while inaugurating a contact office at Itagol, Ward no. 7 of the municipality.

 Maharjan is the Mayor candidate from the ruling CPN (Maoist Center).

Itagol is a place where the CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and other leaders of the party had stayed here for a week in 1999 for a meeting of the Special Valley Bureau. Then the party was in armed struggle against the state.

Mayor candidate Maharjan pledged to the socio-economic development of Kritipur.

The former chief of the central department of education of the Tribhuvan University (TU), Maharjan also announced he would devote all remuneration and allowances he would receive as Mayor to social services.

Maharjan has made important contributions to social, education, cooperatives, transportation, drinking water and other development activities in Kritipur.

Similarly, the candidate for the deputy Mayor Susheela Basnet made commitments that her candidacy was for the upliftment of women in the municipality by means of employment and social status to them.

Candidate of Ward no. 7 of the municipality Ram Chandra Dangol said that he would focus on solving the problems of the ward and work as per the spirit of federalism and the rights of the local level.

Woman member candidate of the ward from the party, Srijana Dhamala, member candidate-duo Kavir Bir Maharjan and Anil Maharjan also spoke in the programme.

Raj Kumar Maharjan who won the previous election as ward member from the place representing Nepali Congress and senior citizen Harikrishna Maharjan were felicitated in the programme.