left Milan physically weak, and made the two, arch-rivals. Manange was arrested on 31 March 2005 charged with attempted murder; he was released from prison on 5 February 2007. 2008 assault 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 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. Politics Manange sought political protection and found favour with Pashupati Shamsher JBR of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP). He then joined Laxman Tharu's Federalist Socialist Party in 2011-12 (2068 BS). He joined RPP in early 2017. In the 2017 local elections, RPP and Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN UML) fielded joint candidates for Kathmandu city. 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. Provincial Assembly member 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 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 Nepali Congress, who received 1020 votes. Manange was on the run in early 2018. He was arrested in April 2018, and was sworn-in in January 2019 after the Supreme Court released him on bail in December 2018. He joined the Nepal Communist Party shortly after. Manange was again arrested on 23 January 2020 after the Kaski District Chairperson of All Nepal Football Association filed a First Information Report (FIR) against him alleging that