Another blow to Rajendra Mahato

10 November, Janakpurdham. Senior chief of Democratic Samajwadi Party Rajendra Mahato has been defeated by Mahindra Rai Yadav for the second time.

Dhanusha space no. Rajendra, who left 3 and returned to Sarlahi 2, was defeated by Nepal Samajwadi Party Chairman Mahindra, who fought with the election image of the Maoist middle, by a margin of two,011 votes. While the winner Mahindra acquired 23 thousand 529 votes, his nearest rival Rajendra was restricted to 21 thousand 518 votes.

Mahindra defeated Rajendra in Sarlahi-5 in Constituent Assembly election-2070. At that point too, Mahindra defeated Rajendra by a margin of two,784 votes. This defeat has made the upcoming political journey of 65-year-old Rajendra difficult.

Although he’ll stay energetic in politics, his private secretary Arvind Shah mentioned. It is pure to win or lose in elections. After Sarlahi’s return, the individuals have given him enthusiastic votes,’ mentioned Shah.

When the elections have been contested in 2070, Rajendra was the president of Sadbhavana Party Nepal, whereas Mahindra Tarai was the president of Madhesh Sadbhavana Party. After the Madhesh motion, 6 Madhesh-centric events got here collectively to type Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) beneath the management of Mahanth Thakur. Rajendra and Mahendra turned companions of the identical celebration. After contesting from Mahindra Sarlahi-2 within the 2074 election, Rajendra selected Dhanusha 3, the middle of the Madhesh motion.

Due to the affect of Raptap of the Madhesh motion, Rajendra defeated Vimalendra by a margin of two,903 votes and have become the MP, whereas Mahindra was elected from Sarlahi-2. During the identical tenure of the House of Representatives, two Madhesh-centric events, the Rajpa and the Federal Socialist Forum, fashioned the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP). But after the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Representatives on 5 January 2077, the leaders of Jaspa have been divided into two camps. Rajendra moved in the direction of Mahant Thakur and Mahindra in the direction of Upendra Yadav.

After the Upendra Yadav-led group acquired the legitimacy of the JSP, the Thakur group fashioned the LOSPA. Mahindra just lately cut up with Upendra and went to the NESP fashioned by Baburam Bhattarai and contested the election beneath the Maoist image.

Rajendra additionally needed to return to Sarlahi-2 after seeing the celebration’s situation weak in Dhanusha-3 after successful the native elections of final Baisakh. The motive was that Julie Mahato, who had performed a job in her victory final time, needed to be a direct candidate from Dhanusha 3 this time and to attempt to coordinate the election with UML.

2 days earlier than the registration of candidature, when Jaspa approached UML, LOSPA not solely acquired a seat within the ruling alliance, but additionally took Dhanusha-3. But Mahato didn’t change his determination to go to Sarlahi.

After the Maoist determined to make Mahindra a candidate on this space, Rajendra couldn’t even change into a standard candidate of the ruling coalition. But he was able to compete in a pleasant method. He was additionally optimistic about successful the election because of the assist of Jangilal Rai of Congress and others. In Sarlahi, he was defeated by Mahendra who had gained 5 consecutive elections since 2051.

Leaders say that this defeat might hinder the plans of Rajendra Mahato to take the management of the celebration. Because the 80-year-old LOSPA president Thakur has gained the election from Mahottari-3, whereas the leaders Sarat Singh Bhandari-2 and Sarvendranath Shukla have additionally gained the election from Rupandehi-4.