Jagannath Paudel

Jagannath Paudel (Nepali: जगन्नाथ पौडेल) is a Nepali politician who is a member of the Nepali Congress.[1] He is also a former member of Rastriya Sabha and was elected under the open category.[2]

Honourable
Jagannath Paudel
जगन्नाथ पौडेल
Election symbol of Paudel
Member of Rastriya Sabha
In office
2017–2019
Prime MinisterKP Sharma Oli
ConstituencyBagmati Province
Deputy Mayor of Bharatpur Municipality
In office
1997–2002
MonarchBirendra of Nepal
Prime MinisterKrishna Prasad Bhattarai
Personal details
NationalityNepalese
Political partyNepali Congress

He was one of the core leader of Nepali Congress in Bharatpur until he gave independent candidacy against the alliance.[3] Currently, even CPN (UML) and RPP are in talks with Paudel to vote him instead of their own candidate to make Renu Dahal loose the election.[4] Similarly, nearly seventy percent of the Nepali Congress vote is expected to be cast for Paudel.[5] Due to this Paudel has been a matter of pressure to both UML and Maoist candidate with highest chance of win.[6]

Political life

Paudel is the former elected deputy mayor of Bharatpur.[7] He has served as member of National Assembly. A veteran politician Paudel is one of the most popular politicians in Bharatpur.[2]

2022 Bharatpur municipal election

On the eve of , Paudel gave independent candidacy against Renu Dahal, the candidate if governing alliance. He disobeyed the decision with consultation to local party committees who asked him to take the step in order that they would vote their own candidate instead of Renu Dahal in mayoral post.[8]

Prime Minister and many other top leaders asked him to visit Kathmandu atleast once to discuss on the topic.[9] Deuba had sent the two ministers to Chitwan on Wednesday to convince rebel candidate Paudel to withdraw candidacy and support CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Renu Dahal, but to no avail.[10] Paudel on the other hand didn't accepted to take back his candidacy even when Home minister Bal Krishna Khand and minister Umesh Shrestha went to Bharatpur to ask him to take back his candidacy for other post to be given to him.[11] Currently, Poudel has got pineapple election symbol.[12]

See also

References
  1. "भरतपुरमा पौडेलको बागी, दाहाललाई संकट". News of Nepal. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. "अमेरिकी ग्रिनकार्डबारे भरतपुरका बागी जगन्नाथ भन्छन्– म नेपाललाई नै अमेरिका बनाउने चाहने मान्छे, किन अमेरिका गएर बस्ने ?". Farakdhar || Nepal's Online Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. रातोपाटी. "काँग्रेसको झण्डा प्रयोग गरिरहेका जगन्नाथ पौडेललाई कारबाही हुन्छ ?". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. "स्थानीय तह निर्वाचन: भरतपुरका कांग्रेस, जो 'भरत' बन्न तयार भएनन्". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. "भरतपुरमा जगन्नाथको दाबी : आश्चर्य हुनेछ, स्वतन्त्र उम्मेदवारले पनि जिते भनेर सबै दंग पर्नेछन्". pahilopost.com. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  6. "भरतपुरको ऋणात्मक हिसाब : कांग्रेसका बागी एमालेलाई घाँडो". nepalkhabar (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. "जगन्‍नाथको बागीले भरतपुरमा कम्पन". ThahaKhabar. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  8. "'लाल कांग्रेस' विरुद्ध भरतपुरको जबर्दस्त विद्रोह". ekagaj. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  9. Republica. "Home minister urges Poudel to withdraw his candidacy". My Republica. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  10. "भरतपुरका बागी मनाउन आएका दुई मन्त्री फर्किए". Online Khabar. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  11. Setopati, Rajesh Ghimire. "Jagannath Paudel refuses to withdraw candidacy for Bharatpur mayor". Setopati. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  12. "भरतपुरका बागीलाई भुइँकटहर". nepalkhabar (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
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