Can Dadeldhura’s next representative handle the district’s challenges?

With Deuba absent, Nain Singh Mahar has entered the fray in a district that has remained a Deuba stronghold yet remains underdeveloped.

For more than three decades, Dadeldhura has been synonymous with one political name—Sher Bahadur Deuba. From 1991 to 2022, voters in Dadeldhura repeatedly sent Deuba to the House of Representatives, propelling him to premiership five times and twice to the helm of the Nepali Congress.