Local-level election should be held in a single day: Chair Bijukchhe

Bhaktapur, April 8: Chairman of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Narayanman Bijukchhe, has said that local-level elections should be held on the same day across the country. Addressing the first national convention of the Nepal University Teachers Society at Thimi in Bhaktapur today, Chairman Bijukchhe said that the proposal of holding the local-level election in two phases is a conspiracy not to hold it. He stressed that the election should not be postponed at the signal of Madhes-based parties.

Chair Bijukchhe said, "Madhes-based parties' demand of determining local-level and constituencies on the basis of population and adding voters' name is against the national interest. The big parties should not accept it."
Bijukche, however, blamed the big parties of including the provision of threshold against democratic norms and values. He said that the provision of giving recognition to the party acquiring three percent votes in proportional election and winning a single seat in first-past-the-post election as the national party was undemocratic and the NWPP was against it. Stressing the need of developing the Parliament as the place of intellectuals as political sector of Nepal has been defamed in recent period due to leaders of big parties, the NWPP Chairman said that authority has been given to the local-level of the party for the selection of candidates from its party in local-level election.
The Central Secretariat of the Party would finalize the name of candidates as per the recommendation of the district committee. Similarly, lawmaker Prem Suwal, lecturers—Maniklal Shrestha and Prithu Charan Vaidya, among others also expressed their views. Society Coordinator Saroj Raj Gosain presented a concept paper on Nepal's education. More than 200 lecturers of 28 colleges from different districts are participating in the convention. RSS

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