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Renu Dahal
Nepali politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Renu Dahal (Nepali: रेनु दाहाल) is a Nepalese politician and current mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.[3][4][5] She joined the CPN (Maoist Centre) party in 1994 and became a full-time member of the party in 1996. Dahal is a daughter of the former prime minister and chairman of CPN (MC), Pushpa Kamal Dahal.[6] She was a member (Proportional Representation) of First Constituent Assembly of Nepal.
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Early life
Renu Dahal was born on July 4, 1976, in Bhimsen Nagar of Shivanagar VDC (now Bharatpur Metropolis) in Chitwan District.[1] She is the second daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal (née Prachanda) and Sita Dahal. Dahal has a younger sister, Ganga. Her eldest sister, Gyanu, died of breast cancer in 2014 and her only brother, Prakash, died of a cardiac arrest in 2017.[7]
CA election
2013 Constituent Assembly election
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2017 Bharatpur municipal election
2017 election
She was elected as a mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan city on August 5, 2017. She secured the mayoral post by defeating her closet rival of Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Devi Gyawali. Her victory margin was only 203 vote as she polled 43,127 votes to defeat Gyawali 42,924 votes.[8]
2022 Bharatpur municipal elections
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The CPN (Maoist Centre) nominated Renu Dahal, daughter of party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, as its mayoral candidate in Bharatpur.
During an election program in Bharatpur, Pushpa Kamal Dahal stated that the country would face disaster if Nepali Congress supporters did not vote for the Maoist election symbol. In his speech, he remarked: "Let me warn you that if the NC supporters do not vote for the Maoist candidate in Bharatpur this time, there is a possibility that the country could plunge into an accident.”[9]
The statement was widely criticized both within and outside Dahal's party. Ganesh Sah, a senior leader of the CPN (Maoist Centre), said that there was no culture of collective leadership in the party and that it was well known why Prachanda was particularly focused on Bharatpur.[10] Other senior leaders, including Anjana Bisankhe and Indra Bahadur Angbo, also criticized the chairman’s strong involvement in Bharatpur, noting that it was the constituency of both him and his daughter.[11]
Similarly, Jagannath Paudel, a Nepali Congress leader who contested as an independent mayoral candidate, claimed that Dahal’s speech had strengthened his own prospects and that no alliance could prevent his victory. It was also predicted that some Nepali Congress supporters would internally back Paudel against Dahal.[12]
2022 election
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