KATHMANDU: Four former Prime Ministers are in the race of the election to the House of Representatives scheduled for March 5.

In this connection, CPN (UML) chairperson and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is filing his candidacy from Jhapa constituency-5.

Similarly, coordinator of the Nepali Communist Party and former Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and joint-coordinator of the same party and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal have been making preparation to file their candidacies from Rukum (East) constituency-1 and Rautahat constituency-1 respectively.

Likewise, patron of the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is filing his candidacy from Gorkha constituency-2.

Earlier in the election held in 2022, CPN (UML) Chair Oli was elected from Jhapa-5, NCP Coordinator Dahal from Gorkha-2 and NCP joint-coordinator Nepal from Rautahat-1. Former Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai had supported the NCP coordinator Dahal in 2079 BS election.

However, Nepali Congress former President and former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who had been getting victory in election continuously from Dadeldhura since 1991, is not in the election race.

He is out of election race this time due to circumstances surfaced following the party’s special general convention.

Nominations are being filed in all 165 constituencies across the country today for the first-past-the-post election (FPTP) scheduled for March 5.