8 new MPs from Saptari
Chandra Kant (CK) Raut, Chairperson of Saptari-2's Janamat Party, is also becoming an MP in his first attempt.
KATHMANDU: Saptari voters chose the majority of the new candidates this time. In the district, which has four representative assemblies and eight State Assembly, eight of twelve new candidates were elected.
Chandra Kant (CK) Raut, Chairperson of Saptari-2’s Janamat Party, is also becoming an MP in his first attempt. While Raut secured 35,042 votes, Upendra Yadav, who was elected from this area in the previous election, received only 16,979 votes.
Dinesh Kumar Yadav, a central member of the Nepali Congress from Saptari Constituency No. 3, has been elected to the Parliament House for the fourth time. Yadav, who had previously lost three times, defeated Tara Kant Chaudhary of the CPN (UML).
UML central member Raj Kumar Lekhi has been elected to the Saptari 1 State Assembly, and Sakil Mia has been elected to the Saptari 1 State Assembly (2). Mia ran as a candidate for the Janmat Party in the parliamentary elections for the first time. He has served on the Saptari District Development Committee.
Satish Kumar Singh of the Janamat Party from Saptari-2 is one of the new faces to be elected (1). In addition, he is the outgoing chairperson of Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality. The candidate for village headship was defeated here in the most recent local level election.
Mahesh Prasad Yadav, a Janamat Party candidate from Saptari-2 (2), is also a new face. In the previous elections, he ran for State Assembly member from the CPN (Maoist Center).
Shambhu Kumar Sah of the Janamat Party, who won Saptari 3 (2), is also a newcomer to politics. Furthermore, Anirudh Kumar Singh, an independent candidate who was elected for the first time as a Saptari-4 (2) member, received 9000 985 votes.
As a result of the eight new faces in parliament, the path to the parliament building was blocked for JSP chairperson and former deputy prime minister Upendra Yadav and Bahujan Shakti Party chairperson and former minister Bishwendra Paswan.
Madhesh State Finance Minister Shailendra Prasad Shah, former ministers Hemraj Tated, Umesh Kumar Yadav, Anish Ansari, Constituent Assembly members Tara Kant Chaudhary, Ashok Kumar Mandal, and outgoing State Assembly members Bideshwor Prasad Yadav and Abhishek Yadav were unable to be MPs this time.
Except for the state assembly members of Congress and the CPN (Socialist Center), who each won one seat, all are new faces.
