Ruling alliance finalizes seat-sharing in Chitwan

KATHMANDU, April 22: The members of the ruling alliance have finalized seat-sharing for the upcoming local level elections in Chitwan district.

Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and Rastriya Janamorcha Party have decided to forge an electoral alliance for the upcoming local polls.

Of one rural municipality and five municipalities in the district, the NC has been given four local units while the CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN (US) have been given one local unit each.

NC has been given the opportunity to field candidates for the post of mayor in Ichakamana Rural Municipality, Ratna Nagar Municipality, Khairani Municipality and Kalika Municipality.

Likewise, the CPN (MC) will field its candidate for the post of mayor in Madi Municipality while CPN (US) will field its candidate for the post of mayor of Rapti Municipality.

Similarly, the posts of deputy leaderships in Ichakamana Rural Municipality, Khairani and Kalika Municipality have been given to CPN (MC), while the CPN (US) has got similar posts in Ratnanagar Municipality. Meanwhile, the NC will be feilding its candidate for the post of deputy mayor in Madi Municipality.

Earlier, the ruling alliance had already agreed to field a candidate of CPN (MC) for the post of mayor in Bharatpur metropolis and candidate of NC for deputy mayor.