Nepali Politician Defeated by Rival Candidate, Brother Publicly Campaigned Against Him

Yogendra Chaudhary, the direct candidate for Dang-1 from the Nepali Congress, faced an unexpected challenge from his own elder brother, Surendra Chaudhary. Surendra, who was included in the proportional representation list of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), made significant efforts to ensure his brother's defeat and secure a win for the RSP candidate in that constituency, Devraj Pathak.

Surendra's efforts bore fruit. Yogendra was defeated by the RSP candidate Pathak. Pathak was elected after securing 42,602 votes, while his closest competitor, Yogendra, received only 15,280 votes.

Yogendra expressed his dismay over his own brother publicly campaigning against him on the social media platform Facebook.

“It is not and was not my fault that you are my brother. Politics is not something done based on the relationship of a brother or sibling. Choosing a political party is your freedom. I am a soldier of the Nepali Congress, a party that advocates for this very freedom. But during the election, you made a spectacle of yourself by publicly stating you were against my own brother, Yogendra Chaudhary. When in fact, the election was not about brothers; the debate should have been about agendas and ideologies,” Yogendra wrote on Facebook.

Surendra's name was included in the final list prepared by the RSP on Sunday for proportional representation lawmakers under the Tharu cluster. Despite his brother actively working to defeat him, Yogendra congratulated his brother after learning he had secured a spot on the proportional representation list.