Kathmandu, November 2
The CPN-UML is fielding various well-known names including its central Vice-Chairperson Ashta Laxmi Shakya for provincial assembly elections in Kathmandu district.
Other candidates for the provincial assembly includes former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Keshav Sthapit, and former lawmaker Rameshwor Phuyal.
Below is the list of UML candidates for Kathmandu district who will file their nominations today.
House of Representatives
- Constituency 2: Madhav Kumar Nepal
- Constituency 3: Krishna Rai
- Constituency 4: Rajan Bhattarai
- Constituency 5: Ishwar Pokharel
- Constituency 7: Rambir Manandhar
- Constituency 8: Jeevan Ram Shrestha
- Constituency 9: Krishna Gopal Shrestha
Maoist leaders Anil Sharma, Jhakku Prasad Subedi and Hitman Shakya will contest the polls from constituencies 1, 6 and 10 respectively with the UML support.
Provincial assembly
- Constituency 1 A: Bishnu Kumari Bhusal
- Constituency 1 B: Ganesh Dulal
- Constituency 2 A: Sanu Kumar Shrestha
- Constituency 2 B: Maniram Phuyal
- Constituency 3 B: Rameshwor Phuyal
- Constituency 4 A: Nirmal Kuinkel
- Constituency 4 B: Kusum Karki
- Constituency 5 A: Narayan Silwal
- Constituency 5 B: Deepak Niraula
- Constituency 6 A: Keshav Sthapit
- Constituency 6 B:: Yogendra Sangraula
- Constituency 7 A: Basanta Manandhar
- Constituency 7 B: Prakash Shrestha
- Constituency 8 A: Suresh Shakya
- Constituency 8 B: Ashta Laxmi Shakya
- Constituency 9 A: Ajaya Kranti Shakya
- Constituency 9 B: Keshav Pokharel
- Constituency 10 B: Rama Aale Magar
Constituencies 3 A and 10 A have been left for the Maoists.
