Jagannath Paudel () is a Nepali politician who is a member of the

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. He is also a former member of

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and was elected under the open category. He was one of the core leader of

in Bharatpur until he gave independent candidacy against the alliance. Currently, even

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and RPP are in talks with Paudel to vote him instead of their own candidate to make Renu Dahal loose the election. Similarly, nearly seventy percent of the

vote is expected to be cast for Paudel. Due to this Paudel has been a matter of pressure to both UML and Maoist candidate with highest chance of win.

Political life

Paudel is the former elected deputy mayor of Bharatpur. He has served as member of

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. A veteran politician, Paudel is one of the most popular politicians in Bharatpur.

2022 Bharatpur municipal election

On the eve of , Paudel gave independent candidacy against

Renu Dahal Renu Dahal () is a Nepalese politician and current mayor of Bharatpur, Nepal, Bharatpur Metropolitan City. She joined the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), CPN (Maoist Centre) party in 1994 and became a full-time member of the party in 1 ...

, 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. Prime Minister and many other top leaders asked him to visit

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at least once to discuss the topic. 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. Paudel on the other hand didn't accepted to take back his candidacy even when Home minister

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and minister Umesh Shrestha went to Bharatpur to ask him to take back his candidacy for other post to be given to him. Currently, Poudel has got pineapple election symbol. Behind Poudel is a team of former presidents of Chitwan Congress ''Krishna Lal Sapkota'' and ''Tikaram Neupane'', former MP ''Bhim Bahadur Shrestha'', former district secretary ''Anand Raj Raut'', leader ''Meena Kharel'', former president of Nepal Tarun Dal ''Shambhu Prasad Aryal'' and others. Similarly, ''Nepali Congress (BP)'' and five other parties have given support to Paudel.

Social works

Paudel is one the founder of community campus, Balkumari Campus of Bharatpur. Similarly, Paudel has been involving in various social welfare activities.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paudel, Jagannath Year of birth missing (living people) Nepali Congress politicians from Bagmati Province Members of the National Assembly (Nepal) Living people People from Chitwan District

Political life

2022 Bharatpur municipal election

Social works

See also

References