Biratnagar. Formal campaigning for the House of Representatives election scheduled for February 21 began on Monday. With the start of campaigning, political fervor has increased in Khotang, as in the rest of the country. A contest for demonstrating strength and wooing voters has begun among the main competing parties: Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, and the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN).The Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has fielded leftist intellectual Dr. Hari Roka in the electoral arena in Khotang. While intellectuals across the country are appealing for votes in Roka's favor, the traditional powers, Congress and UML, are strategizing to secure their...