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Ruling of Supreme Court On Holding Local Elections
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 7, 2012: hearing on the public-interest case filed by former chairman of the Federation of District Development Committees Madhav Prasad Paudel, general secretary of the Federation of Village Development Committees Prasad Dhungana, and secretary general of the Association of Nepal Municipalities Bidur Mainali last year, a division bench comprising Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal Khil Raj Regmi and Justice Prakash Osti issued the order to Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, the Office of the Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Local Development and the Election Commission to hold elections to local bodies at a suitable time according to ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’.
‘Hold elections to local bodies at a suitable time’ means the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal becomes almost non-binding, as the government as well as the Election Commission could sit on the ruling as long as they wished for.
The local bodies have been without elected officials since last ten years. Elections to local bodies were held in 1997, and their term of office ended in 2002. Since then, either the political appointees or the administrative officials had been running the local-body offices.
The petitioners had made the Office of Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers, and the Ministry of Local Development as the defendants, and sought elections to local bodies stating irregularities and corruption at the local bodies have been increased in absence of the elected officials.
