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Elections To Constituent Assembly In Nepal Today
By KMT Metro Reporter
November 19, 2013: The Election Commission has said that more than 12 millions voters are voting for candidates and political parties since 7:00 morning, and continued until 5:00 evening. The Election Commission anticipates the turnover of the voters at 60-80 percent. About 1.2 new young voters are voting in the elections.
The State-run Radio Nepal has been reporting on the elections held elsewhere in Nepal since early morning. It has been airing the reporting on the ongoing voting in different parts of Nepal by its reporters, and it also has been airing the monitoring reports on the elections done by the top civil service officials at various district all over Nepal.
According to the overall reports aired by the Radio Nepal until 4:00 evening elections has been going on smoothly elsewhere in Nepal. Elections will continue until 5:00. So, only an hour is left to complete the elections.
No major undesirable incidents have been reported. The high turnover of the voters has shown that the election-opposing parties have hardly made any impact on the electorates.
The Radio Nepal has aired that none of the voters turn up at the Thabang of the Rolpa District. More than one thousand voters did not show up in the Thabang. Most of the adults have disappeared from the villages leaving only children and senior citizens. Thabang has the total boycott of the elections but the number of voters is only slightly more than one thousands.
At Bhotebahal in Kathmandu, a bomb went off injuring one child today early morning causing concern for the TVs, and private radios but it has not impacted on other voters in Kathmandu and in other places, too.
The counting of votes will be started at 10:00 night today wherever all ballot boxes could be transported to the district headquarters. Counting of votes of the direct elections will be completed after seven days, and of the proportional representation will be completed after a fortnight, according to the Election Commission.
The Election Commission has made the elections so systematic that nobody has any chance to rig the elections. Proxy voting has been impossible.
The home ministry has made security so tight that violence by anybody has been almost impossible except for unidentified cadres leaving bombs stealthily at some places but such incidents have not affected the voting and the turnover of voters.
Election observer former US President Jimmy Carter observed the elections at two polling centers in Bhaktapur. A large number of local and foreign election observers have been going from one polling centers to another to see how the elections have been going on. Contrary to the violence anticipated by foreign countries, the elections have been smooth and without any major events of violence.
