{"id":40492,"date":"2026-01-20T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40492"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:13:17","slug":"former-deputy-prime-minister-shrestha-contesting-hor-election-from-sarlahi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/former-deputy-prime-minister-shrestha-contesting-hor-election-from-sarlahi-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Deputy Prime Minister Shrestha contesting HoR election from Sarlahi-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Barahathawa (Sarlahi), Jan 20: Narayan Kaji Shrestha, leader of the Nepali Communist Party and former Deputy Prime Minister, has filed his candidacy from Sarlahi Constituency No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Leader Shrestha&#8217;s personal secretary Upadesh Yadav informed Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) that leader Surendra Lama proposed Shrestha&#8217;s candidacy and Bibek Mainali seconded it.<\/p>\n<p>In this constituency, in the 2079 election, CPN-UML&#8217;s Hari Prasad Upreti was elected, narrowly defeating the Maoist Centre&#8217;s candidate Narendra Sah by a small margin.<br \/>\nThis time again, Hari Prasad Upreti from CPN-UML and Narendra Sah from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) have filed their candidacy from this constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barahathawa (Sarlahi), Jan 20: Narayan Kaji Shrestha, leader of the Nepali Communist Party and former Deputy Prime Minister, has filed his candidacy from Sarlahi Constituency No. 3. Leader Shrestha&#8217;s personal secretary Upadesh Yadav informed Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) that leader Surendra Lama proposed Shrestha&#8217;s candidacy and Bibek Mainali seconded it. In this constituency, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40494,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40492\/revisions\/40494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}