Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that it is not necessary to re-demarcate the provincial border to hold local level elections slated for May 14.

Addressing the inauguration of Lalitpur Metropolitan City office, Dahal called on Madhes-centric parties to take part in the polls.

PM Dahal, who is also the chairman of CPN (Maoist Centre), expressed his confidence that the Madhes-based parties would take part in the local elections.

“I have also fought for the rights of Madhesi people,” he said, adding, “1300 Madhesi people scarified their lives in the people’s movement under my leadership.”

Dubbing the day as a victory day, Dahal said the Singh Durbar-centric rights were reaching in the local level and people would exercise such power by electing their representatives.

PM Dahal further shared that this historic step has cleared up the illusion that all the governments were same after the republicanism with the new set up.

Also speaking on the same programme, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa clarified that he joined the government to stabilise the government. He added that elections were the means of exercising the democracy therefore no one should miss the chance.

The government has begun a new set up in the local level of the country by replacing the former Village Development Committees (VDCs) with new village councils, municipalities, sub-metropolis and metropolis.

There are four Metropolises, 13 Sub-metropolises, 246 Municipalities and 481 village councils across the country as per the new federal set up. This is taken as a mile stone in effective exercise of the power as per the real norms of empowered local governance.