JANAKPURDHAM, Feb 5: Sharada Shankar Kalwar, an independent member of the Madhesh Province Assembly, has joined the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP).
Kalwar, who was elected from Bara 2 (A) as an independent candidate in the last election, was welcomed into the party by Finance Minister of Madhesh Province Sanjay Kumar Yadav and JSP’s Biratnagar Metropolitan City Mayor Amarendra Yadav on Sunday.
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He was elected from the then Federal Socialist Forum Nepal in the 2017 election. But in the last election, Kalwar was not given a ticket due to the electoral coordination between UML and JSP, and he ran as an independent candidate.
He won from Bara 2 (A) with 9,295 votes, defeating the common candidate of JSP and UML, Balbir Bhujel.
Earlier, two independent MPs joined JSP. Surita Sah, an independent MP who won the election from Mahottari 2 (B) and Pramod Kumar Jaiswal from Parsa Constituency No. 3 (A) joined JSP.
Surita has been made Social Development Minister by JSP. With this, the number of JSP members of the provincial assembly of Madhesh Province has reached 19.
