By Our Reporter
Although the ruling five parties decided to forge an alliance for the local level election, local committees of the parties in many districts revolted against the alliance and fielded their own candidacies in many of the local bodies.
Even in Bharatpur, NC’s former lawmaker Jagannath Paudel fielded his rebel candidacy against the coalition candidate Renu Dahal of the Maoist Centre. In Pokhara, NC activists padlocked the party office after the leadership decided to give the post of mayor to CPN (Unified Socialist). In Lalitpur, CPN (Unified Socialist) fielded its candidates in the post of deputy mayor against the common candidate of the ruling parties.
Even in Nepalgunj, Biratnagar, Birgunj and other cities the alliance has been at risk because of rebel candidature. In most of the local levels of Sudurpashim Province, the ruling alliance has its separate candidates as the local leaders were not satisfied with the way the seats were divided among them.
However, in Kathmandu and in majority of the sub-metropolitan cities and municipalities, the ruling alliance have fielded common candidates and if the parties vote honestly to the common candidates, the parties in ruling alliance can win the elections. But if the activists and cadres do not vote the common candidates, the results will go in favour of the CPN-UML.
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