Jagannath Paudel
Jagannath Paudel () is a Nepali politician belonging to Nepali Congress. He is also a former member of Rastriya Sabha and was elected under open category. He was one of the core leader of Nepali Congress in Bharatpur until he gave independent candidacy against the alliance. Currently, even CPN (UML) and RPP are in talks with Paudel to vote him instead of their own candidate to make Renu Dahal loose the election. Similarly, nearly seventy percent of the Nepali Congress vote is expected to be cast for Paudel. Due to this Paudel has been a matter of pressure to  both UML and Maoist candidate with highest chance of win. Political life. Paudel is the former elected deputy mayor of Bharatpur. He has served as member of National Assembly. A veteran politician Paudel is one of the most popular politicians in Bharatpur. 2022 Bharatpur municipal election. On the eve of , Paudel gave independent candidacy against Renu Dahal, the candidate if governing alliance. He disobeyed the decision with consultation to local party committees who asked him to take the step in order that they would vote their own candidate instead of Renu Dahal in mayoral post. Prime Minister and many other  top leaders asked him to visit Kathmandu atleast once to discuss on the topic. Deuba had sent the two ministers to Chitwan on Wednesday to convince rebel candidate Paudel to withdraw candidacy and support CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Renu Dahal, but to no avail. Paudel on the other hand didn't accepted to take back his candidacy even when Home minister Bal Krishna Khand and minister Umesh Shrestha went to Bharatpur to ask him to take back his candidacy for other post to be given to him. Currently, Poudel has got pineapple election symbol.