Jhalanath Khanal begins door-to-door campaign

ILAM, Oct 18: With just 30 days left for the November 19 Constituent Assembly election, CPN-UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal is visiting his election constituency number 1 of Ilam District, to launch a door-to-door campaign.



Khanal will reach Fikkal this evening after visiting Biratnagar. CPN-UML’s local cadres had filed Khnal’s nomination for the First-Past-the-Post electoral system in  Khanal´s absence. Chairman Khanal is reaching his constituency for the first time to woo the voters after nomination was filed. [break]



According to Khanal’s aide, Rambabu Adhikary, Khanal will be visiting 15 Village Development Committees of the constituency one by one for the next 16 days. The campaign begins Saturday morning. Khanal will visit Gorkhe VDC on Saturday and Shriantu VDC on Sunday.



Chairman Khanal is attending a function to be organized by the party’s regional committee this evening to apprise him of CPN-UML’s position in the district, party sources said. It is learnt that Khanal’s main rival is Himalaya Karmacharya, candidate from Nepali Congress.



Similarly, UCPN (Maoist)’s Yubakumar Poudel is also contesting from the same constituency. Khanal won last CA election from the same constituency pocketing 17,655 votes, whereas his nearest rival got 14,000 votes. There are a total of 14 polling stations in Khanal’s constituency.

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