Kathmandu, Feb 23: The Election Commission (EC) has urged the people’s representatives of the local level not to involve in the election publicity campaigns.
In order to keep the free, fair, impartial, transparent, fearless and economized environment for the upcoming March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections, the EC has made the plea to the locally-elected representatives.
Citing reference of the implementation of the Election Code of Conduct, 2082 BS, the EC has reminded the responsibility of the concerned stakeholders to strictly comply with the code. According to the EC, it has been monitoring whether or not the political parties, candidates and concerned are fully complying with the election code of conduct.
The commission has expressed serious concern over complaints and grievances received that some local representatives participated in the promotion of political parties and candidates contrary to the election code.
According to the code related provisions, local executive office-bearers may participate in election campaigns of their respective political parties in local levels other than the one they were elected, yet there is a clear provision that they cannot use government resources and facilities.
The EC has cautioned the local people’s representatives not to engage in poll publicity campaign in a way to contravene the existing code
