# Renu Dahal

Renu Dahal (Nepali: रेनु दाहाल) is a Nepalese politician and current mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City. She joined the CPN (Maoist Centre) party in 1994 and became a full-time member of the party in 1996. Dahal is a daughter of the incumbent prime minister and chairman of CPN (MC), Pushpa Kamal Dahal. She was a member (Proportional Representation) of First Constituent Assembly of Nepal.

## Early life

Renu Dahal was born on July 4, 1976, in Bhimsen Nagar of Shivanagar VDC (now Bharatpur Metropolis) in Chitwan District. She is the second daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal (née Prachanda) and Sita Dahal. Dahal has a younger sister, Ganga. Her eldest sister, Gyanu, died of breast cancer in 2014 and her only brother, Prakash, died of a cardiac arrest in 2017.

## CA election
### 2013 Constituent Assembly election

Kathmandu 1 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Nepali Congress | Prakash Man Singh | 15,138 |
| | CPN (Maoist Centre) | Renu Dahal | 4,064 |
| | Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal | Bharat Mani Jangam | 3,732 |
| | CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) | Bidhya Neupane | 3,501 |
| | Others | Others | 2,499 |
| Result | Result | Congress hold | Congress hold |
| Source: Election Commission ||||

## 2017 Bharatpur municipal election
### 2017 election

She was elected as a mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan city on August 5, 2017. She secured the mayoral post by defeating her closet rival of Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Devi Gyawali. Her victory margin was only 203 vote as she polled 43,127 votes to defeat Gyawali 42,924 votes.
2017 Nepalese local elections :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Status |
| MC | Renu Dahal | 43,127 | Elected |
| UML | Devi Gyawali | 42,924 | Lost |

## 2022 Bharatpur municipal elections

CPN (Maoist Centre) had given ticket to Renu Dahal, the daughter of Pushpa Kamal Dahal as mayoral candidate in Bharatpur.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal gave a threat while speaking in an election centric program in Bharapur. He told country would plunge into a disaster if Nepali Congress supporters don't vote for Maoist’s election symbol in Bharatpur. Dahal in speech added "Let me warn you that if the NC supporters did not vote for the Maoist candidate in Bharatpur this time, possibilities are that the country would plunge into an accident.”
This speech was highly criticized within and outside Dahal's party. Ganesh Sah, a senior politician of CPN (Maoist Centre) told there was no practice of collective leadership in party and people are well known why Prachanda is much concerned only on Bharatpur. Even party senior leaders including Anjana Bisankhe, Indra Bahadur Angbo criticized hyper activeness of chair Prachanda only in Bharatpur being his and his daughter's constituency.
Similarly, Nepali Congress leader Jagannath Paudel who stepped as independent mayoral candidate told his win was secure by the speech of Prachanda and no alliance can stop him from win while it's predicted that even would internally support Paudel against Dahal.

### 2022 election

2022 Bharatpur municipal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Status |
| Nepali Congress (Independent) | Jagannath Paudel | 14,728 | |
| Maoist Centre | Renu Dahal | 52,030 | Elected |
| CPN (UML) | Bijay Subedi | 39,581 | |