Kanchanpur-3 is battleground of close aides of Deuba, Oli

UML candidate Niru Devi Pal and her rival from the Congress, Ramesh Lekhak, are expected to have a neck-to-neck competition.

Federal constituency 3 in Kanchanpur, a plain district of Sudurpaschim Province, is a battleground of two close aides of CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba in the elections next week.