Nepali Congress (NC) leaders discussed local level elections preparation with Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav on Friday.

Defence Minister Bal Krishna Khand and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Management Ramesh Lekhak among other leaders reached the Election Commission (EC) office today and discussed the preparation with Yadav and other Election Commissioners.

NC had assigned central members Khand and Dipak Giri for the local elections mobilisation and coordination.

On the occasion, Minister Khand received the information about the political parties participating in the elections, provision for independent candidates, challenges to be surfaced during the elections and weakness on the implementation of the related laws.

It has been learnt that they discussed thoroughly whether the central office bearers could be assigned for selecting the candidates as per the party statute.

After holding meeting with the Elections Commissioners, Minister Khand said EC’s preparation for elections was very satisfactory.

However, the EC said it faced problems when the representatives of the political parties failed to attend the meeting in various districts on time.

Minister Khand further said the government was providing all sorts of assistance the EC was seeking.

According to him, some of the issues creating hurdles could be addressed through constitution amendment. RSS