Nepali Congress General Secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma has announced to contest the upcoming election from his home district Jhapa. He is going to contest the election from Jhapa-1. Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, Sharma said he would contest the election from Jhapa. Rumors were doing rounds that he would contest the election from Kathmandu-5.

In the election held in 2017, Sharma lost to  Ram Karki of CPN (Maoist Center).

Karki defeated Sharma by 2,863 votes. Former Information Minister Karki acquired 36,173 votes while Sharma received 33,310 votes. The government has decided to hold the federal and provincial elections on November 20.