CPN (Maoist Center) Vice-chairman Krishna Bahadur Mahara has withdrawn his name from the proportional list of Nov 20 federal election. He has withdrawn his name from the list after there was widespread protest for putting his name in proportional list. He was at the top in the Khas Arya cluster in the proportional list submitted by the Maoists. The party sources said that Hitraj Pandey has replaced Mahara. Mahara’s candidacy for the House of Representatives from Dang-2 is still not fixed, said an undisclosed source.