Renu Dahal

Renu Dahal
Mayor
रेनु दाहाल
Renu Dahal In office
Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 May 2022
DeputyChitrasen Adhikari
Preceded byRenu Dahal
In office
05 August 2017 – 22 April 2022
DeputyParbati Shah Thakuri
Succeeded byRenu Dahal
Constituent Assembly Member (PR)
In office
28 May 2008 – 27 May 2012
Personal details
Born (1976-07-04) 4 July 1976 (age 48)[1]
Shivanagar, Chitwan, Nepal[1] [2]
Political partyCPN (MC)
SpouseArjun Pathak
Children2
Parents

Renu Dahal (Nepali: रेनु दाहाल) is a Nepalese politician and current mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.[3][4][5] She joined the CPN (Maoist Centre) party in 1994 and became a full-time member of the party in 1996. Dahal is a daughter of the incumbent prime minister and chairman of CPN (MC), Pushpa Kamal Dahal.[6] She was a member (Proportional Representation) of First Constituent Assembly of Nepal.

Early life

Renu Dahal was born on July 4, 1976, in Bhimsen Nagar of Shivanagar VDC (now Bharatpur Metropolis) in Chitwan District.[1] She is the second daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal (née Prachanda) and Sita Dahal. Dahal has a younger sister, Ganga. Her eldest sister, Gyanu, died of breast cancer in 2014 and her only brother, Prakash, died of a cardiac arrest in 2017.[7]

CA election

2013 Constituent Assembly election

Kathmandu 1
Party Candidate Votes
Nepali Congress Prakash Man Singh 15,138
CPN (Maoist Centre) Renu Dahal 4,064
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal Bharat Mani Jangam 3,732
CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Bidhya Neupane 3,501
Others 2,499
Result Congress hold
Source: Election Commission

2017 Bharatpur municipal election

2017 election

She was elected as a mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan city on August 5, 2017. She secured the mayoral post by defeating her closet rival of Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Devi Gyawali. Her victory margin was only 203 vote as she polled 43,127 votes to defeat Gyawali 44,924 votes.[8]

2017 Nepalese local elections
Party Candidate Votes Status
MC Renu Dahal 43,127 Elected
UML Devi Gyawali 42,924 Lost

2022 Bharatpur municipal elections

See also: 2022 Bharatpur municipal election and Jagannath Paudel

CPN (Maoist Centre) had given ticket to Renu Dahal, the daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal as mayoral candidate in Bharatpur.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal gave a threat while speaking in an election centric program in Bharapur. He told country would plunge into a disaster if Nepali Congress supporters don't vote for Maoist’s election symbol in Bharatpur. Dahal in speech added "Let me warn you that if the NC supporters did not vote for the Maoist candidate in Bharatpur this time, possibilities are that the country would plunge into an accident.”[9]

This speech was highly criticized within and outside Dahal's party. Ganesh Sah, a senior politician of CPN (Maoist Centre) told there was no practice of collective leadership in party and people are well known why Prachanda is much concerned only on Bharatpur.[10] Even party senior leaders including Anjana Bisankhe, Indra Bahadur Angbo criticized hyper activeness of chair Prachanda only in Bharatpur being his and his daughter's constituency.[11]

Similarly, Nepali Congress leader Jagannath Paudel who stepped as independent mayoral candidate told his win was secure by the speech of Prachanda and no alliance can stop him from win while it's predicted that even would internally support Paudel against Dahal.[12]

2022 election

2022 Bharatpur municipal election
Party Candidate Votes Status
Nepali Congress

(Independent)

Jagannath Paudel 14,728
Maoist Centre Renu Dahal 52,030 Elected
CPN (UML) Bijay Subedi 39,581

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Prachanda's daughter battles cancer in India". www.hindustantimes.com. 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  3. ^ "Renu Dahal elected mayor of Bharatpur metropolis". The Himalayan Times. 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  4. ^ Paudel, Ramesh Kumar. "Renu Dahal elected as mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City". My Republica. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  5. ^ "Bharatpur re-election: Renu Dahal turns the tables on Devi Gyawali". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
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  12. ^ "संयुक्त सभापछिको भरतपुर : प्रचण्ड थोरै आश्वस्त, जगन्नाथ आक्रामक". Online Khabar. Retrieved 2022-05-08.