report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 5, 2023Chairman of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party (LSP), Mahantha Thakur, has said the Madhesh agenda was not watered down, but relevant and vibrant. Addressing the extended meeting of the LSP province committee at Bardibas on Monday, Chairman Thakur reminded that the party would reach the agenda of the party establishment time to the people again. “Some of the political agenda we raised were established based on movement. However, the suppression from…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 4, 2023 .The Rastriya Swatantra Party, which took many by surprise when it got established as the fourth largest in the House of Representatives elections within months of its formation, has encountered challenges in expanding its influence in Madhesh. Though the party has launched various activities in the province composed solely of Tarai districts, its leaders said they have realised that they have to put extra effort…
by Shiva Puri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 15, 2023Ever since her nine-year-old daughter went missing four months ago, Tetari Kumari Mahato has been having sleepless nights. The 35-year-old mother, a resident of ward 6 of Garuda Municipality, has been eagerly waiting for any news about her daughter, who went missing on May 3. It was noon and Tetari had been catching a nap while her daughter was out playing with her friends. “My husband…
by Shiva Puri & Ajit Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, July 13, 2023The growing hostility between Mahendra Mahato and Sunita Singh Budhathoki, mayor and deputy mayor of Mithila Municipality in Dhanusha, has affected important development projects and daily administrative works of the local unit. Mahato, who was elected mayor on a Nepali Congress ticket, had postponed the municipal council meeting scheduled for June 25 after knowing that Deputy Mayor Budhathoki, who is from the UML,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 21,2023The Madhesh-based Janata Samajbadi Party, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party and Janamat Party gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his floor test on Monday. Under the new power equation, the door has opened for government expansion. Although all three Madhesh-based parties are now part of the new alliance led by the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Madheshi parties are divided.…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 21,2023The Madhesh-based Janata Samajbadi Party, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party and Janamat Party gave a vote of confidence to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his floor test on Monday. Under the new power equation, the door has opened for government expansion. Although all three Madhesh-based parties are now part of the new alliance led by the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Madheshi parties are divided.…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 25, 2023Madhesh politics is simmering. Discontent has grown within the ruling coalition about the Madhesh government’s expansion. CPN (Maoist Centre), Janamat Party, and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party have been saying that their members have not been fairly represented in power-sharing arrangements. The parliamentary party of the Maoist Centre has even decided to recall its two ministers from the Madhesh Cabinet. Only the Nepali Congress and CPN (Unified Socialist)…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023It has been more than a week since the CPN-UML pulled out of the Madhesh provincial government. Three coalition partners—Nepali Congress, CPN (Unified Socialist) and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party—are yet to join the government led by Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav of Janata Samajbadi Party that includes ministers from the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Janamat Party. The exit of CPN-UML, the second-largest party in the federal parliament,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu, March 31,2023Rajendra Mahato, a veteran of Madhesh politics, has tossed his hat in the ring for the by-election in Bara-2, a constituency that has remained vacant after Ramsahay Prasad Yadav was elected the country’s Vice President. Keshav Jha, executive member of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, confirmed to the Post that his party has decided to field senior leader Mahato for the by-election. “The Janamat Party had previously promised to…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, .January 14th, 2023Even though all seven provincial assemblies have elected their chief ministers who are now busy picking ministers, people appear more curious about the composition of the new Cabinet in the Madhesh province. That is so for a number of reasons. First, there has been a significant change in the power equation in Madhesh after the November 20 polls with previously dominant regional forces losing ground and…