The CPN (UML) has been registered in the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday for the purpose of upcoming elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Province Assembly
The CPN (UML) has been registered in the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday for the purpose of upcoming elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Province Assembly
KATHMANDU, May 18: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, has accused the ruling alliance-led by the Nepali Congress of rigging the local level polls in Madhesh Province.
As the vote count of recently held local polls are underway and results are arriving gradually, the ruling Nepali Congress seems in a strong position winning the highest number of local units so far.
The main opposition party, UML, is trailing behind, followed by the CPN (Maoist Center).
Organizing a press conference at Janakpurdham, Raghubir Mahaseth, Provincial Incharge of UML, accused the ruling alliance of rigging the local polls in collaboration with election officials at Madhesh Province.
Mahaseth also accused the Nepali Congress and ruling alliance of misusing the authorities of security personnel and election officials as per their interests. “The Nepali Congress attacked more than a dozen polling centers, canceled voting and hijacked ballot boxes and fake votes were casted in collaboration of election officers deployed in the area,” he added.
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The biggest archrivals of Nepali politics--CPN-UML and Nepali Congress--have partnered in one local unit of Rolpa in Lumbini also.
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KATHMANDU, April 13: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Nepal have agreed that the RPP Nepal will contest in local polls using UML’s election symbol.
The two parties have also maintained that if those RPP leaders contesting using UML’s election symbol win the election, they will still be in the RPP Nepal.
The two parties will also forge an election alliance in upcoming local elections scheduled on May 10.
The meeting held between the two parties on Wednesday was attended by Chairman of RPP Nepal, Kamal Thapa and Vice-Chairman of UML, Vishnu Poudel and General Secretary Shankar Pokharel.
KATHMANDU, May 7: The ruling CPN-UML has fielded Home Minister and party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ for the upcoming by-elections for a vacant seat in the National Assembly.
An informal meeting of UML’s Standing Committee on Thursday picked him as the candidate for the seat in the upper house from Bagmati Province.
The EC is holding by-polls to elect legislators in a vacant seat in the upper house of parliament that fell vacant after the former lawmaker Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, who was elected from the CPN (Maoist Center), was suspended as the member of parliament after he joined the ruling CPN-UML.
Opposition alliance including the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and ruling UML’s Nepal-Khanal faction has fielded Dr Khimlal Devkota.
Minister Thapa will contest election on UML’s symbol’ while Devkota will be contesting on the election symbol of Maoist party.
Thapa and Devkota reached Bagmati Province capital, Hetauda on Thursday and registered their candidacy.
The by-polls have been slated for May 20. The members of the province assembly and the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities will cast their votes. A total of 348 voters, including 110 province assembly members and 238 chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels are eligible to vote in the by-polls in Bagmati Province.
