336:. Manange was arrested for fear that he might interfere in the election on behalf of RPP's deputy mayoral candidate; he was kept in the same cell with his arch-rival Chakre Milan who was also arrested to prevent disruption during the election. He defected from RPP, which he was the Manang district chairman of, along with the entire district committee, and joined CPN UML before the provincial elections of 2017.
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The CPN UML district committee for Manang unanimously recommended
Manange as the party candidate for Manang (B) constituency in the 2017 provincial assembly elections for the Gandaki Province. However, following public outcry, the party leadership nominated one of the other RPP defectors instead. The
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Manange was found guilty of assault in a separate incident and sentenced to a year in prison in 2008. After serving a month, he managed to get himself released by successfully petitioning that he was Rajiv Gurung, not Deepak
Manange (the named accused). Two months after release, he was rearrested on
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when he led a gang attack against Milan in 2004. He was convicted of assault in 2008 for a separate incident and sentenced to one year. In 2013, he was convicted of attempted murder for the 2004 incident and sentenced to five years. He had yet to complete his sentence when he ran for office in 2017,
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Manange led a 15-man attack against another
Kathmandu gangster Chakre Milan in May 2004. Milan's left hand was nearly severed in the attack that involved swords. The incident left Milan physically weak, and made the two, arch-rivals. Manange was arrested on 31 March 2005 charged with attempted
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of India. He completed his high school in Sikkim. He returned to
Kathmandu around 1994 and ran a ready-made garments business for two years, selling Nepali garment in Delhi and bringing back leather jackets to sell in Nepal. He then moved to
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22 February 2009, and made to serve the remaining eleven months, following a review. He was again arrested immediately after release on 20 January 2009, for manhandling a policeman. He was released a month later under bail of Rs 25,000.
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party's official candidate withdrew later, and the Left
Alliance supported Manange, who had filed his candidacy as an independent. He won the seat with 1,410 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Karma Gurung of
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