36 candidates including medical doctor and pilot contesting in Rupandehi-3

Devdaha (Rupandehi), Feb 9: Thirty-six candidates including a senior neurologist and a senior pilot are competing in Rupandehi constituency-3 for the election to the House of Representatives scheduled for March 5.

Nineteen candidates are from various political parties and 17 the independent ones.

Chief Returning Officer Ashok Kumar Basnet said election symbols were already conferred on 36 candidates for election purpose. 

Basudev Ghimire from the CPN (UML), Sushil Gurung from the Nepali Congress and Faij Ahmed Kha from the Nepali Communist Party have filed their candidacies from Rupandehi-3. 

Ghimire was elected to HoR member from Rupandehi-5 in 2079 BS while Gurung was former President of the Free Student Union of Bhairahawa Multiple Campus. 

Similarly, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has fielded a senior neurologist Dr Lekh Jung Thapa as its candidate in the constituency.  

Likewise, Captain Gaurav Bohara is the candidate from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP). Gaurav is a senior pilot and the son of late Deepak Bohara. 

Shreeniwas Yadav from the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal, Bishal Gupta from the Janamat Party, Sugrim Chai from the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Badre Alam Musalman from the Rastriya Janamorcha, Govindra Prasad Karakheti from the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party, Kulbir Gharti Magar from the Mangol National Organisation, Raju Gaudel from the Nepal Communist Party (United), Mohan Thapa from the National Republic Nepal are other candidates here.

Anjana Chaudhary Thapa, Karam Hussein Khan, Gopal Bhandari, Tejindra Malla, Bishnu Bahadur Rana, Mahendra Yadav are some of the independent candidates in the fray.

Rupandehi -3 has 140,035 voters including 71,258 men, 68,775 women and two others.  It has 46 voting centres and 157 polling booths. Rupandehi district has total five constituencies. (RSS)