{"id":40693,"date":"2026-01-23T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40693"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:03:09","slug":"former-pm-bhattarai-withdraws-his-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/former-pm-bhattarai-withdraws-his-candidacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Bhattarai withdraws his candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Gorkha, Jan 23: Former Prime Minister Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai, who had filed his nomination for the March 5 election to the House of Representatives member from Gorkha constituency-2, has withdrawn his candidacy today.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattarai, a candidate from Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party, withdrew his candidacy through his representative Narayan Khatri at the Election Office in Gorkha municipality-8, shared election officer, Mohan Prasad Belbase.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Gopal Babu Shrestha, Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party candidate from Gorkha-1, also withdrew his nomination today, said chief returning officer, Bishnu Prasad Gautam.<br \/>\nWith the withdrawal of their candidacy, there are now 12 candidates in Gorkha Constituency No. 1 and 13 candidates in Constituency No. 2 for the upcoming House of Representatives election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorkha, Jan 23: Former Prime Minister Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai, who had filed his nomination for the March 5 election to the House of Representatives member from Gorkha constituency-2, has withdrawn his candidacy today. Bhattarai, a candidate from Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party, withdrew his candidacy through his representative Narayan Khatri at the Election Office in Gorkha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40693","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\/40693"}],"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=40693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40694,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693\/revisions\/40694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}