Kathmandu, May 26: The government has said that it is hell-bent into holding the second phase of local level election on June 14.
Presenting the government’s policy and programme for the coming fiscal year 2017/2018 at the Legislature-Parliament today, President Bidya Devi Bhandari said that the government has accorded high priority to conducting the election in rest of the 41 districts in province no 1,2,5 and 7.
Stating that the first phase of elections has been concluded in 283 rural municipalities and municipalities of province no 3, 4 and 6, President Bhandari said that the government is confident of receiving similar support from the civil servants, security personnel and observers besides the election officers for the second phase of poll.
“The May 14 election has been concluded in free, transparent and impartial manner,” observed the Head of the State, expressing government’s gratitude to the political parties and the public for their unprecedented and historic participation in the polls.
She also shared that the government had highly acknowledged management and the efforts of the Election Commission of Nepal towards holding the election that had taken place in the country after 19 years.
According to her, holding the election would be a matter of pride for the government to empower the local level, which is the foundation of democracy, and to devolve the power of Singha Durbar to towns and villages. RSS












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