KATHMANDU, March 23: The Election Commission (EC) has decided to allow some parties, which missed an earlier deadline to register for the upcoming local election in some districts, to participate in the polls in those districts. Parties including the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) had not registered for the polls in some districts and the EC said they could miss the elections in those districts. A board meeting of the election body on Wednesday, however, agreed to incorporate the parties not registered in the district election offices. The EC, which began printing the ballot papers from Sunday, has not mentioned those parties on the ballot papers in those districts after the parties did not submit their details nor expressed their willingness
to contest the election at district level when they were urged to do so. NC has not informed the EC about its presence in Dolpa while the RPP has missed deadline given by the EC to get registered in 9 districts, including Jhapa and Morang. Apart from them, Rastriya Janamorcha Nepal, Sanghiya
Samajbadi Party Nepal, Jana Samajbadi Party Nepal, Green Party Nepal, Rastriya Yatarthabadi Nepal among others were not registered at various district election offices. “Onwards now, these parties will also be included in the ballot paper and their representatives will be allowed to contest the elections,” said election commissioner Ishwari Prasad Paudyal. The parties had not informed the EC about their willingness to contest the election when the EC asked them to do so. When the EC published the details of the parties contesting the elections, these parties which missed out in the list had demanded that they too be included. However, the election body did not heed their demand. Instead, the EC finalized the ballot papers without including them. Pressed by the parties, the election body, however, has now agreed to allow them to participate in the election. In case of Dolpa, the EC has already printed the ballot papers. “We have to re-print the ballot papers there to bring the Nepali Congress on board the election process. We may have to redesign the ballot papers in other districts,” said an informed source at the EC.
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