The third gender community in Mahottari has complained that the election authority did not categorise them under the third gender while updating the electoral roll. Rambaran Yadav, the programme coordinator of Jaleshwor-based Blue Diamond Society, said that there are around 5,000 third gender people in Mahottari district, but the election office did not recognise their identity. As per the district election office, only a 31-year-old person from Bardibas-8 has been categorised as third gender in the district. Yadav, however, claimed that the third gender people in the district were not identified as third genders in their voter ID cards, though they had clearly stated their gender registration.