[2][3][6][7] Pant was noted during his campaigning prior to the decision for promoting the idea that same-sex marriage would boost Nepal's economy due to the impact of wedding tourism.
[10] Following Pant's successful campaigning and his subsequent popularity among LGBT voters, the Communist Party of Nepal (United) offered him one of the five proportional support seats it had secured in the constituent assembly following its 2008 establishment.
As a politician, Pant served as a member of the Fundamental Rights Committee, and was successful in securing full protection for the LGBT community in Nepal's draft constitution.
That same year, Pant defected to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), though he was not ultimately granted one of the 175 seats they won in the subsequent election, due to their policy not to permit parliamentarians who had served in the previous assembly.
[3][10] In 2020, Pant ended his political career and converted to Buddhism, training as a monk in Sri Lanka and choosing the name Bhikshu Kashyap.
Documenting LGBT activist Bemz Benedito's bid to become the first transgender women elected to the Congress of the Philippines, the directors said they had been inspired to make the film after reading an article about Pant.