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Elections by a narrow margin, a seemingly disappointed Ganesh Man Singh vented ire at a victory rally in his Kathmandu constituency: “You silly voters, you come out in droves to welcome me, but why didn’t more of you vote for me?”Dubbed ‘The Iron Man’ of Nepal’s democracy struggle against the party-less Panchayat system, Singh led the 1990 Democracy Movement. As a native of Kathmandu, Singh’s leadership of the capital-centric movement was unopposed. So, when his wife and son lost the 1991 elections, the always blunt Singh publicly called Kathmandu’s voters “fools”Indeed, election results in Kathmandu have often been surprising, with heavyweights losing and newcomers pulling off upset victories.
As the head of the interim government after the fall of the absolute monarchy in 1990, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai was praised for steering Nepal’s successful transition to multi-party democracy. But Kathmandu’s voters did not trust him. UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal was widely seen as Prime Minister-in-waiting in 2008. But he bit the dust in the first Constituent Assembly elections. Maoist boss Pushpa Kamal Dahal suffered the same fate in 2013.
These surprise results are telling evidence that Kathmandu’s voters can lift candidates and bring them down. Kathmandu is the biggest beneficiary of government schemes, but is often anti-incumbent. Voters in Kathmandu behave in unpredictable ways. They will elect candidates whom they do not even know, just to show their dissatisfaction with the establishment. In the twilight years of the absolute monarchy, virtually unknown Nani Maiya Dahal contested and won elections. In the 2008 elections, most Maoist candidates in Kathmandu were outsiders and did not know their voters. Even so, they got elected. The Maoists thought they had conquered Kathmandu, but the same voters wiped them out in the 2013 elections.
