The Election Commission (EC) is distributing voter ID cards for the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) by-election on Friday. For the voters unable to collect their voter ID cards on the day, the EC can extend the distribution process until Saturday, Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety said on Wednesday.
Those voters registered with the EC after the Constituent Assembly election of November 19, 2013, will receive voter IDs. Similarly, people who have lost their voter ID cards will receive new ones. The EC is conducting the CA by-election using Electronic Voting Machines this time. The logistics and the human resources required for the election have already been delivered.
The by-elections is taking place in Kathmandu-2, Chitwan-4, Bardiya-1, and Kailali-6 as their elected candidates relinquished the constituencies after they also emerged as victors from other constituencies in the CA polls. Nepali Congress (NC) leaders Sushil Koirala and Sher Bahadur Deuba were elected from Chitwan-4 and Kailali-6, while senior CPN-UML leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal and Bam Dev Gautam won from Kathmandu-2 and Bardiya-1, respectively.
Deepak Kuikel of NC, Krishna Gopal Shrestha of UML and Lilamani Pokharel of UCPN (Maoist) are in the fray from Kathmandu-2. The major contenders for Chitwan-4 are Ram Krishna Ghimire of NC, Parwati Rawal of UML and Khusi Ram Pakhrin of UCPN (Maoist). Similarly the chief candidates vying in Bardiya-1 are Sode Bista of NC, Shyam Dhakal of UML and Bhawan Kumar Tharu of UCPN (Maoist). Ahead in the election race in Kailali-6 are Pushkar Nath Ojha of NC, Maheshwor Pathak of UML and Sundar Regmi of UCPN (Maoist).
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