KATHMANDU: Nar Bahadur Jhakri of CPN (Maoist Centre) has been elected chairperson of Tripurasundari municipality-5 in Dolpa district. Jhakri was elected to the post with 161 votes in the by-election held on Sunday. His nearest rival, Nar Bahadur Roka of the CPN (UML) got 116 votes, according to the District Election Office. The post of […]
DOLPA, Nov 26: The officials deployed in upper Dolpa to conduct the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Province Assembly on November 20 have been airlifted to the district headquarters in Dunai.
Election officials and temporary policemen deployed in three local levels of Upper Dolpa have been stranded. A Nepali Army helicopter airlifted only election officers and ballot boxes to the district headquarters in Dunai on Wednesday. However, no transportation service has been managed for other election staff and temporary policemen.
DOLPA, Nov 23: Election staffers deputed to Upper Dolpa for conducting the elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly have been unable to return to the district headquarters for lack of transportation.
Election materials, security personnel and officials have been sent in helicopters to 12 polling centres in upper Dolpa. Of the total 68 polling centres in the district, 22 polling centres are in the upper region.
KATHMANDU: The 14th General Convention of the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) is scheduled to be held from December 10 to 12.
A meeting of the party's Central Election Committee held at the party's central office Thursday set a new date for holding the general convention in Kathmandu from December 10 to 12 after holding all the elections from the ward level to the province-level.
The Nepali Congress will hold delayed ward conventions in Sindhupalchok, Dolpa, Banke, Kailali, Surkhet, Saptari, Siraha, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Bara and Parsa districts on November 13 and local level conventions on November 16. Similarly, constituency level conventions are scheduled to be held on November 19. The district-level conventions in those districts with only one election constituency will take place on November 22 while November 26 has been allotted for other districts.
Similarly, the constituency level conventions in Solukhumbu, Darchula and Myagdi are scheduled to be held on November 13 and the district conventions on November 17. The district convention of Jumla district will be held on November 17.
Gopal Krishna Ghimire, a member of the election committee and senior advocate, said that the constituency level conventions of 46 districts including Kathmandu have already been completed.
The Congress party is yet to resolve the active membership dispute in Rautahat and Rasuwa districts.
KATHMANDU, September 2: The Nepali Congress (NC) convention has not been ascertained in some districts, including federal capital Kathmandu when only a day is to go for its pre-scheduled ward convention.
The list of active members has not been disclosed in some districts, including Kathmandu as of now. The uncertainty of convention is looming large for no disclosure of active member base. It is also because the Election Committee has not made public any statement whether or not to hold election in the districts having not disclosed the active membership base.
Committee Coordinator Mahadev Yadav said the party central office has so far provided the details of active members of 56 districts to the committee and the committee made disclosure of the base accordingly. Details of member base of 21 districts have not been made available to the committee yet, he added.
Among the 21 districts are capital Kathmandu, Kavre, Sindhupalchowk, Rasuwa, 8 districts of province-2 and Dolpa. Election officers have been deputed in all 56 districts as part of the preparation to conduct ward election from September 3, Yadav informed.
He further shared that the committee is well prepared to depute election officers in the concerned district within two hours the party provides the details of active members.
DOLPA, Dec 8: The final results of Dolpa province 1 'A' has published today. CPN-UML candidate, Nanda singh Budha has won with securing 5490 votes,Dolpa Chief Election Officer informed.
KATHMANDU, Nov 9: The Nepal Army has started to transport election papers, ballots, voters’ education materials, stamp pad among others in Khotang, Dolpa and other remote areas. Election Officer, Dinesh Khatri said that preparatory works for upcoming Nov 26 election was at final stage at Khotang. The district is home to 125,183 voters. According to RSS, election materials for Dolpa were dispatched from Surkhet. See photos here.
