Jagannath Paudel

Nepali politician

Honourable

Jagannath Paudel

जगन्नाथ पौडेल

Election symbol of Paudel

Member of Rastriya Sabha
In office
1997–2002
Prime Minister| KP Sharma Oli
Constituency| Bagmati Province
Deputy Mayor of Bharatpur Municipality
In office
1992–1997
Monarch| Birendra of Nepal
Prime Minister| Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Personal details
Nationality| Nepalese
Political party| Nepali Congress
Occupation|

* Lawyer
* Politician

Jagannath Paudel  (Nepali: जगन्नाथ पौडेल) is a Nepali politician who is a member of the Nepali Congress.[1] He is also a former member of Rastriya Sabha and was elected under the open category.[2][3]

He was one of the core leader of Nepali Congress in Bharatpur until he gave independent candidacy against the alliance.[4] Currently, even CPN (UML) and RPP are in talks with Paudel to vote him instead of their own candidate to make Renu Dahal loose the election.[5] Similarly, nearly seventy percent of the Nepali Congress vote is expected to be cast for Paudel.[6] Due to this Paudel has been a matter of pressure to both UML and Maoist candidate with highest chance of win.[7]

## Political life

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Paudel is the former elected deputy mayor of Bharatpur.[8] He has served as member of National Assembly. A veteran politician, Paudel is one of the most popular politicians in Bharatpur.[2]

### 2022 Bharatpur municipal election

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On the eve of , Paudel gave independent candidacy against Renu Dahal, the candidate if governing alliance. He disobeyed the decision with consultation to local party committees who asked him to take the step in order that they would vote their own candidate instead of Renu Dahal in mayoral post.[9]

Prime Minister and many other top leaders asked him to visit Kathmandu at least once to discuss the topic.[10] Deuba had sent the two ministers to Chitwan on Wednesday to convince rebel candidate Paudel to withdraw candidacy and support CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Renu Dahal, but to no avail.[11] Paudel on the other hand didn't accepted to take back his candidacy even when Home minister Bal Krishna Khand and minister Umesh Shrestha went to Bharatpur to ask him to take back his candidacy for other post to be given to him.[12] Currently, Poudel has got pineapple election symbol.[13]

Behind Poudel is a team of former presidents of Chitwan Congress Krishna Lal Sapkota and Tikaram Neupane, former MP Bhim Bahadur Shrestha, former district secretary Anand Raj Raut, leader Meena Kharel, former president of Nepal Tarun Dal Shambhu Prasad Aryal and others. Similarly, Nepali Congress (BP) and five other parties have given support to Paudel.[14]

## Social works

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Paudel is one the founder of community campus, Balkumari Campus of Bharatpur. Similarly, Paudel has been involving in various social welfare activities.[14]

## See also

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* Nepali Congress
* 2022 Bharatpur municipal election

## References

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1. ^ "भरतपुरमा पौडेलको बागी, दाहाललाई संकट". News of Nepal. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
2. ^ a b "अमेरिकी ग्रिनकार्डबारे भरतपुरका बागी जगन्नाथ भन्छन्– म नेपाललाई नै अमेरिका बनाउने चाहने मान्छे, किन अमेरिका गएर बस्ने ?". Farakdhar || Nepal's Online Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
3. ^ "Jagannath Paudel | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
4. ^ रातोपाटी. "काँग्रेसको झण्डा प्रयोग गरिरहेका जगन्नाथ पौडेललाई कारबाही हुन्छ ?". RatoPati (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
5. ^ "स्थानीय तह निर्वाचन: भरतपुरका कांग्रेस, जो 'भरत' बन्न तयार भएनन्". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
6. ^ "भरतपुरमा जगन्नाथको दाबी : आश्चर्य हुनेछ, स्वतन्त्र उम्मेदवारले पनि जिते भनेर सबै दंग पर्नेछन्". pahilopost.com. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
7. ^ "भरतपुरको ऋणात्मक हिसाब : कांग्रेसका बागी एमालेलाई घाँडो". nepalkhabar (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
8. ^ "जगन्‍नाथको बागीले भरतपुरमा कम्पन". ThahaKhabar. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
9. ^ "'लाल कांग्रेस' विरुद्ध भरतपुरको जबर्दस्त विद्रोह". ekagaj. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
10. ^ Republica. "Home minister urges Poudel to withdraw his candidacy". My Republica. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
11. ^ "भरतपुरका बागी मनाउन आएका दुई मन्त्री फर्किए". Online Khabar. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
12. ^ Setopati, Rajesh Ghimire. "Jagannath Paudel refuses to withdraw candidacy for Bharatpur mayor". Setopati. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
13. ^ "भरतपुरका बागीलाई भुइँकटहर". nepalkhabar (in Nepali). Retrieved 1 May 2022.
14. ^ a b "भरतपुरमा विद्रोहको झण्डा नछाडेका जगन्नाथ पौडेल". Online Khabar. Retrieved 10 May 2022.