Kamal Thapa on wrong side of three-way race despite contesting with UML's symbol

Kamal Thapa, who quit RPP and formed RPP-Nepal after losing party chairmanship to Rajendra Lingden, will have to scrape through a tight three-horse race with Deepak Bahadur Singh of his former party and common coalition candidate from Nepali Congress (NC) Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya Dina in the election for House of Representatives (HoR) constituency of Makwanpur-1 despite contesting on election symbol of CPN-UML.

The constituency includes Bagmati Rural Municipality, ward numbers 1-4 of Makwanpur Gadhi Rural Municipality and whole of (15 wards) Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City apart from ward numbers 1, 3, 11 and 19.