Shah's close aide Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary too announced that he'd run as an independent candidate after he was denied the CPN UML ticket from Rautahat 1(Kha).
KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 09
Former Minister for Urban Development Prabhu Sah today denounced the CPN-UML party ticket to contest in the upcoming parliamentary polls.
Sah was finalised as CPN-UML candidate for the upcoming polls from Rautahat constituency-3.
However, in an interesting turn of events, as is a norm in Nepal during elections, CPN-UML recently decided to form an allaince with the Madhes-centred Janata Samajbadi Party - Nepal.
As a result, some CPN-UML ticket hopefuls for both parliamentary and provincial polls were denied tickets as their JSP-N contemporaries were granted green signal to fight the elections.
Meanwhile, according to sources, Shah said that defying the earlier party commitments of nation building and anti-segregation politics, the CPN-UML leadership colluded with JSPN to represent Madhes.
Sah also took a dig at the Upendra Yadav-led party and alleged the party of spreading communalism and corruption.
Contesting on a CPN-UML ticket representing the alliance, I too would have to support JSPN and under such circumstances, I deemed fit to file for independent candidacy.
It has also been learnt that Shah faction of the party today filed independent candicacy at all provincial and parliamentary constituencies where JSPN leaders have been selected to represent the alliance.
Shah's close aide Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary too announced that he'd run as an independent candidate after he was denied the CPN UML ticket from Rautahat 1(Kha). Talking to THT Online, Chaudhary said that, he resonates with the sentiments expressed by Prabhu Sah regarding the alliance. "Under the circumstances, I too deemed it suitable to file independent candicacy. In healthy democracy, public mandate is at the top of the hierarchy and therefore I believe that in the upcoming elections slated for November 20, people will defy JSPN leadership in the best interest of Madhes and Madhesis."
Following the unprecedented political developments, Madhes politics has yet again come to the centre of Nepali politics.
