{"id":67506,"date":"2026-02-01T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=67506"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:40:04","slug":"dhangadhi-mayor-hamal-said-everyone-chose-the-party-i-am-the-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67506","title":{"rendered":"Dhangadhi Mayor Hamal said, &#8216;Everyone chose the party, I am the people&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"296\">Kathmandu. Gopal Hamal, mayor of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City, expressed his political views through social media, saying, &#8220;Everyone chose the party, I chose the people. \u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hamal, who was elected mayor of the 2079 local level election as an independent candidate, is not affiliated to any political party so far.TAG_OPEN_p_5 According to him, he is focused on serving the people and working for the sub-metropolis. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Balen Shah of Kathmandu and Harka Sampang of Dharan have also been elected as independent candidates for the House of Representatives.TAG_OPEN_p_4 But Hamal has been busy in the work of the sub-metropolis. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hamal was elected mayor defeating Nrip Bahadur Odd of Nepali Congress in the local elections.TAG_OPEN_p_3 He garnered 26,865 votes while NC&#8217;s Ward got 14,817 votes and UML&#8217;s Rana Bahadur Chand got 9,115 votes. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Gopal Hamal, mayor of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City, expressed his political views through social media, saying, &#8220;Everyone chose the party, I chose the people. \u201d Hamal, who was elected mayor of the 2079 local level election as an independent candidate, is not affiliated to any political party so far.TAG_OPEN_p_5 According to him, he is focused<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/67506\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Dhangadhi Mayor Hamal said, &#8216;Everyone chose the party, I am the people&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":67504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0967\u096e \u092e\u093e\u0918 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u0906\u0908\u0924\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0969:\u0968\u0969","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67507,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67506\/revisions\/67507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}