Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Chairman Upendra Yadav is preparing to contest the by-election.
Yadav, who lost to Janamat Party Chairman CK Raut in the Saptari-2 House of Representatives (HoR) constituency, wants his confidant Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav, who was elected from Bara-2, to be vice-president and challenge the election charge of that constituency.
The eight parties, including CPN (Maoist Center), Nepal Congress (NC), CPN (United Socialist), JSP, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP), Janamat Party, Rastriya Janamorcha and Nagarik Unmukti Party, they decide to present the NC joint presidential candidate. he had also agreed to cede the vice-president role to JSP.
“Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav from our party has almost been confirmed as Vice President. Only a formal decision needs to be made,” a JSP executive member told Setopati. “The president will contest the by-election of the constituency that Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav won.”
Chairman Yadav feels that the constituency is safe, according to the JSP leader, as there is a Yadav majority in the constituency.
There was talk of President Yadav running against Bara-2 in recent elections, but JSP, which sided with CPN-UML after leaving the then-ruling coalition over disagreement over seat allocation just before submitting nominations, sent Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav of the constituency and President Yadav impeached Saptari.
The vice president election is scheduled for March 17.
