Poll Update (22-28 July 2013)

EC Registers 12.1M Voters for CA Election-2 

 

The Election Commission has registered 12.1 million voters across the country. The deadline for the registration of voters in the new electoral rolls, with photos and biometrics, had expired on Monday. According to the EC, this number is 5.5 million less than the total number of voters registered for the Constituent Assembly Election held on 2008. There were 17.6 million voters registered for the last CA election. Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety claimed that the new electoral roll is the ‘most fair and democratic’ electoral roll thus far. 

 

HLPC Forms Team to Resolve Difficulties of CDC 

 

After the Constituency Delineation Committee (CDC) fell into constitutional and political difficulties while fixing the number of constituencies, the High Level Political Committee (HLPC) has decided to form an eight-member team to resolve the issue. 

The HLPC has decided to form a team comprising two members each from the parties represented in the HLPC. The eight members of the committee are- Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Khim Lal Devkota from UCPN (Maoist), Ram Sharan Mahat and Minendra Rijal from Nepali Congress, and Surendra Panday and Agni Kharel from CPN (UML). Likewise, Hridayesh Tripathi and Jitendra Dev are other two members from the United Democratic Madhesi Front in the team, which has been mandated three days to submit its report. 

 

The CDC has been facing political problems after the parties made competing demands on the delineation of the constituencies. The Commission too was also fraught with constitutional difficulty due to contravening provisions in the Interim Constitution.