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Mute Period And Final Preparations For Elections
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 17, 2013: in a notice published in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today, the Election Commission has said that the mute period has started off at midnight of November 16, 2013 following the Clauses 34 and 93 of the Election Codes of Conduct of 2013, and will remain it until the last election poll is closed on November 19.
During the muter period, none of the political parties and candidates should hold any demonstration, and rally, and show off any flags, pamphlets, and election symbols of any political parties, and any items concerning the election campaigns.
None should intimidate or threaten any voters to vote for or against any candidates. None should put up any barricade to prevent the elections.
None of the media should air or publish any materials concerning the election campaigns other than the information on elections provided by the Election Commission during the mute period.
“I have no appropriate words to address those guys that throw petrol bombs with the intention to kill other humans; even the tigers don’t kill other tigers but our people are for killing others; I don’t have enough words to hate those terrorists,” the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today quotes Chief Election Commissioner Nilkatha Uprety as saying.
The Election Commission (EC) has set aside Rs. 33.1 million to take the election materials to all polling centers safely, and then bring the ballot boxes to the district headquarters, according to the RSS news on the ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
The EC said that employees assigned to the polling centers have already reached there along with 68 types of election materials with security arrangement for election. A total of 10,013 polling stations and 18,457 polling centers have been set for the CA elections. Similarly, 215,000 employees and security personnel have been mobilized for the election.
As many as 15,725 observers including 253 international ones have so far taken identity cards from the EC for the CA election observation, and the number of observers would be increased as Offices of the District Election Officer have also distributed the identity cards. A total of 54 national organizations and three international organizations have taken permission for observing elections, according to the RSS news on the ‘gorkhaapatraonline.com.’
