Election Commission working to resolve election symbol issue: CEC Thapaliya
The 73 political parties who have registered to participate in the local level election to be held on May 13 have been asked to provide details of district-wise activities and the organization of the party.
The Election Commission (EC) has arranged a ballot paper with a red election symbol on white background for the first-past-the-post (FPTP) election system to choose the House of Representatives and Province Assembly members in the upcoming elections.
KATHMANDU: Jagannath Poudel, an independent candidate for the post of mayor of Chitwan’s Bharatpur Metropolitan City, has received ‘pineapple’ as election symbol. He said the Election Commission (EC) assigned him pineapple as election symbol for the May 13 election. A leader of the Nepali Congress (NC) until Friday, Poudel said that he tried to contest […]
BIRATNAGAR, March 10: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has urged to make the election symbol red. Addressing a public meeting held at Rangeli in Morang on Wednesday, Oli urged the Election Commission (EC) to make the election symbol red.
The Election Commission (EC) has clarified that it has decided to prepare ballot papers in the forthcoming local level election by putting details with a green election symbol on a white background as it is voter and enumerator friendly.
KATHMANDU: The Election Commission (EC) is scheduled to give the election symbol to the parties contesting the National Assembly (NA) elections on Tuesday.
KATHMANDU, October 8: The CPN (Unified Socialist) has decided to change its election symbol.
A standing committee meeting held on Thursday took a decision to change its earlier proposed election symbol (book). The party has now decided to make ‘Pen’ its election symbol.
“The party will visit the Election Commission on Friday or Sunday after completing the process to change the election symbol,” said Jaganath Kathiwada, spokesperson of the party.
The party’s decision to change its election symbol came at the time when the party merged with the Nepal Communist Party (Unified)-led by Jeevan Rai.
Earlier, Pen was the election symbol of the Nepal Communist Party (Unified).
The Election Commission has decided that the Baburam Bhattarai-Upendra Yadav faction of the splitting Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal is legitimate, hence, it carries the name, election symbol and other entitlements of the party.
KATHMANDU, July 10: The Election Commission (EC) has refused to provide new election symbol to Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) for third round of local elections slated for September 18 in Province 2.
KATHMANDU, July 9: The hope of the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal to get a new election symbol they have demanded has nearly ended as the Election Commission has ruled out the possibility.
