By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 27, 2023At first blush, the byelection in Bara-2 was a straight shootout between Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav and Janamat Party’s candidate Shiv Chandra Kushwaha. But dig a little and it was so much more, as Madhesh observers had commented in the lead-up to the polls. It was a contest for prestige, a battle between a Madhesh veteran, Yadav, and newly emerged popular leader CK Raut,…