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Chief Election Commissioner And Four Commissioners Appointed
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 25, 2013: following the recommendations of the Constitutional Council, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav appointed Nilkanth Upreti to the Chief Election Commissioner, Dolakh Bahadur Gurung, Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, Rambhaktaprasad Biswokarma (Thakur), and ILa Sharma to the vacant positions at the Election Commission yesterday.
Acting Chief Justice Damodar Prasad Sharma administered the oath of the office to the Chief Election Commissioner at the office of the president yesterday. Thereafter, Chief Election Commissioner Nilkanth Uprety administered the oath of the offices of four other Election Commissioners at the same event, according to the ‘Gorkhapatraonline.com’ of today.
Newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner Upreti and other four election commissioners took their respective offices at the Bahadur Bhavan yesterday. Secretary to the Election Commission Narayangopal Malego welcomed them at the Bahadur Bhavan.
Now, the Election Commission could work with its full strength for holding elections in June 2013. The Election Commission faces the challenges to hold elections but with the cooperation of the political parties and of the Interim Election Council, Election Commission could hold elections as scheduled. Annual monsoon would not start in June but at times, short and even heavy showers are possible but they would not stop the voters going to polls.
The Ministry of Home in a public notice said that the government would punished those people trying to disrupt the election related work including the collection of the voters’ names no matter whether they are acting in the names of fronts or dissident political parties, according to the RSS.
Secretary to the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya of the Kanchanpur district Bir Bahadur Thapa had warned the collectors of the names of the voters in the district of not performing their duties, as his party did not recognize the current Interim Election Council, and want an all-party government to hold elections, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
In the Palpa district, the cadres of the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya looted the laptops from the staffs of the district Election Commission that have been collecting the names of voters, and hampered the job of collecting the names of voters in the district, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
At the meeting held at the Buddhanagar headquarters of the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya, the 33 political parties including the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya announced the 10-day protest against the four parties forming Interim Election Council, alleging the formation of the Council was unconstitutional. They announced that they would shut down Nepal on April 7, 2013, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapata’ of today.
Most of the 33 political parties in question except for the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya are one-leader or two-leader parties. Only the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya is the significant party. So, whatever the 33 parties do will be the doing of the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya. The 33 parties sound a large number of parties but in fact, the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya is the only party that has been making noises against the elections and has been causing serious violation of human rights shutting down the businesses of the entire population. For the information of Mr Mohan Vaidhya Chairman of the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya, the one-day shutdown of Nepal he enforces, causes the loss of Rs 2.5 billion, according to the study of the FNCCI.
