Elections 2022
With the elections just two weeks ago, preparations are going on a war footing, with the political parties intensifying their campaign in the villages one hand while the Election Commission busy delivering ballot papers in the districts.
The elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly members will take place on November 20.
In Dailekh, which has two House of Representatives and four Province Assembly constituencies, coalition alliance members Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (Unified Socialist Party) and the CPN (UML) are engaged in village-centric election campaigns.
In the last elections in 2018, the UML won in three provincial assemblies and Maoists in one provincial constituency.
Likewise, the UML had won in both HoR constituencies of the district. However, the results are likely to be challenged by the new five-party alliance in this election.
If only the number of votes at the local level is used as the basis, then the results will be different, said analyst Pitambar Dhakal.
Social worker Thir Bahadur Karki said the current election results would likely be interesting. However, he said that the votes obtained by the party at the local level elections could not be the main basis of victory.
Meanwhile, the ballot papers for the elections have reached Nuwakot.
Chief Election Officer Madan Bahadur Dhami said the ballot papers sent by the commission had arrived in both constituencies of the district on Saturday.
According to him, 530,000 ballot papers have been received in the district for the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category.
Earlier, 538,000 ballot papers had arrived in the district for the proportional representation (PR) category.
The ballot papers that arrived on Saturday are kept under the security cordon of the Nepal Police in a sealed room. - RSS
