Former mayor of Itahari Sub-metropolitan Dwarika Lal Chaudhary has joined CPN (Maoist Center). Chairman of the Maoist Pushpa Kamal Dahal welcomed CPN-UML leaders and cadres along with Chaudhary on Sunday morning. Chaudhary, resident of Itahari-17, was involved in politics from the student wing of UML in 1985. He became the president of UML Sunsari district in 2015 and was elected mayor of Itahari sub-metropolitan city in the local elections of 2017.