Nepal, Feb. 19 -- Upendra Yadav, chairman of Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal (JSP-N), is once again seeking to prove his political relevance in Saptari, returning to the district where his electoral fortunes have fluctuated over the past two parliamentary polls.

Yadav, who was elected from Saptari constituency 2 in the 2017 House of Representatives election with 21,620 votes under the banner of the then Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum Nepal, had back then contested in alliance with the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal. However, in the 2022 general election, he lost the same constituency to Janamat Party's CK Raut, who secured 35,042 votes. Yadav, contesting with the support of the CPN-UML, garnered 16,979 votes.

After that defeat, Yadav entered the pa...