January 1
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CPN-Maoist Revolutionary merged
with Communist Nucleus Nepal, reports Republica. CPN-Maoist Revolutionary
Chairman Mohan Baidya and Communist Nucleus Nepal Coordinator
Bhupendra Neupane announced the merger amid a program in Kathmandu.
The ruling coalition decided to
table the constitution amendment bill in parliament despite the
obstruction by the main opposition CPN-UML and eight other fringe
parties.
CPN-UML General Secretary Ishwor
Pokharel speaking in a program organized by Press Chautari Nepal,
Kathmandu said that the constitution amendment bill cannot be
discussed in the parliament, as it is against the constitution.
SP Chairperson Rajendra Mahato
speaking at a press meet organized by Press Forum in Siraha District
warned all to beware of secessionist forces that would rise in
the country if the statute amendments move and federalism failed.
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January 2 |
Tharuhat Joint Struggle Committee announced the
second phase of protest programmes demanding a separate Tharuhat
state, including Kailali and Kanchanpur through statute amendment.
Supreme Court cleared the decks for the Government
to endorse the second Constitution amendment bill as it decided
that an interim order should not be issued staying the bid.
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January 3 |
The meeting of the Legislature-Parliament scheduled
for 1 pm was postponed till January 8 as the main opposition,
CPN-UML, has been obstructing the Parliament.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the
country would move ahead with polls after forging unity among
the mountain, hills and plains.
Claiming that the CPN-UML's repeated obstruction
in the House meetings has threatened the Madhes' rights, SP Chairman
Rajendra Mahato stated that the time has come to bid the CPN-UML
a farewell from the Madhes region.
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January 4 |
Federal Alliance at a meeting held in Kathmandu
decided to seek amendment to Article 274 that 'prohibits revision
of provincial boundaries without the consent of the provincial
assembly concerned' said it would accept polls only after the
constitution was amended.
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January 5 |
NC, CPN-Maoist Center and UDMF at a tripartite
meeting held at the Prime Minister's residence in Kathmandu decided
to table the constitution amendment bill at the parliament meeting
scheduled for January 8.
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January 6 |
LBRC submitted a 1,718-page report to Minister
of Local Development Hitraj Pandey recommending creation of 719
local bodies across the country.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli while addressing
a mass rally of nine opposition political parties at Exhibition
Road in Kathmandu threatened not to let Parliament endorse the
constitution amendment bill at any cost.
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January 8 |
Government tabled the Constitution Amendment Bill
amid protests from opposition party lawmakers.
Nine opposition parties including the main opposition
CPN-UML vowed to thwart the Amendment Bill.
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January 9 |
Parliament held uninterrupted meeting after one
and half months. The opposition lawmakers decided to let the House
move with its business as the Speaker Onsari Gharti had not included
the amendment bill discussion in the meeting agenda.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the
constitution amendment bill was tabled in Parliament with the
consent of the main opposition, CPN-UML.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli claimed that the
Constitution amendment bill tabled in the Parliament would not
be passed.
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January 10 |
LBRC member Sunil Ranjan Singh said that complaints
are pouring in against LBRC report. He said most of the complaints
received on phone were from Tarai/Madhes.
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January 11 |
Federal Alliance at meeting in Kathmandu urged
all the political parties to pass a revised Constitution Amendment
Bill.
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January 12 |
TRC extended offices in seven federal provinces.
The field offices will be set up in Biratnagar for Province No
1 Janakpur for Province 2 Hetauda for Province 3 Pokhara for Province
4 Tulsipur for Province 5 Surkhet for Province 6 and Dipayal for
Province 7.
NEFIN informed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal
that the indigenous communities would support the Constitution
amendment bill recently tabled at the Parliament.
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January 13 |
Ruling and the opposition MPs opposed LBRC report
for restructuring the local bodies. They also warned that mass
protests would break out if the Government failed to correct the
boundaries of the local bodies on time.
Parliament forwarded the Local Level Election
Bill to the SAC prolonging its endorsement process from the House.
The SAC has already been delaying finalizing three other election-related
bills.
HRW said Nepal failed to ensure accountability
for human rights abuses during the decade-long Maoist war. It
further claimed that efforts to enforce rights or provide justice
for wartime abuses were stalled due to violent protests in the
Tarai.
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January 14 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal expedited preparations
to induct more Ministers in his cabinet in an apparent bid to
garner support of more parties in favor of the Constitution amendment
bill.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while interacting
with Nepalis working in Abu Dhabi, the UAE Capital promised Constitution
implementation, infrastructure development and prosperity.
CPN-UML Vice-Chairman Bhim Rawal claimed that
the opposition parties would fail the Constitution amendment proposal
tabled by the Government in the Legislature-Parliament at any
cost.
Ruling coalition and the Madhes-based parties
agreed to work together on further amendment on constitution amendment
bill tabled in Parliament.
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January 15 |
A Standing Committee meeting of the CPN-UML announced
it is to organize mass rallies in all Tarai Districts beginning
March 4. They decided to launch a 15-day campaign from Mechi to
Mahakali in order to put an end to allegations that it was against
Madhes and the Madhesi people.
Federal Alliance and Naya Shakti Nepal in their
first meeting in Kathmandu to discuss in detail about their working
alliance have agreed in principle to forge an alliance to press
for the Constitution amendment as per the demands of the Madhes-based
parties.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the existence of Kathmandu
(is unimaginable without the presence of the Madhes.
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January 17 |
Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi said that
local elections would be announced after forging an agreement
with the UDMF.
MJFD Chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar said that
elections were not possible until constitution's amendment with
revision.
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January 18 |
TMSP Chairman Mahendra Raya Yadav ruled out chances
of statute implementation without ensuring rights to the Madhes.
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January 19 |
EC said that the local elections will not happen
in May-June if issues related to the elections are not settled
within the next 10 days.
CPN-UML Politburo member Ved Ram Bhusal speaking
said that the Government is not eager to hold election. He accused
the Government of trying to circumvent the election by bringing
the constitution amendment bill.
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January 20 |
A protestor Binod Pathak was injured in Police
firing to take the situation under control that went tense after
the locals clashed with Police over the report of the LBRC in
Nuwakot District.
JTMM planted a grenade at the main entrance of
the residential building of local businessperson Phusraj Dugad
in Saptari District in the wee hours.
Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation, Prem
Bahadur Singh said that Constitution will be amended in course
of implementation.
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January 21 |
Major three political parties agreed in principle
on holding local level elections in the fourth week of April.
SLM Chairman Kumar Lingden said that they will
keep fighting until Limbuwan State is ensured in the Constitution.
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January 22 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that Government
will announce the date of local polls within a week and will be
conducted by mid-May.
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January 23 |
SAC of the Parliament endorsed two poll related
bills - bill relating to powers and functions of the EC and the
one on voter list. The SAC endorsed the bill's provision that
states the EC will communicate with the Government through the
Ministry of Home Affairs.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting
with CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav and discussed the issues related
to fresh elections in local bodies.
UDMF staged a rally demanding the restructuring
of local bodies on the basis of population in Birgunj city of
Parsa District.
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January 24 |
UDMF in a meeting held at the Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal's official residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu warned
the Government not to announce election dates unilaterally.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal assured the
UDMF that the Government would hold the local-level election only
after amending the constitution.
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January 26 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal inaugurating
the Parbat Festival being held at Kushma Bazaar, the District
headquarters of Parbat issued instructions to the heads of Government
offices to start preparations for holding the three-tier elections
by January 21, 2018.
The Prime Minister also said that no election
would be announced without first taking the Madhesi and Tharu
communities on board. Dahal said "What could be the point of announcing
the election date unless an environment is prepared for holding
the elections?"
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January 28 |
UDMF at a meeting decided to launch another round
of agitation from February 12 if the constitution amendment bill
registered in Parliament is not revised and endorsed by the House
by then.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli speaking with
the journalists at Biratnagar airport in Morang District underscored
the need to hold long overdue local body's election at any cost.
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January 29 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has invited
the Madhesi parties for fresh talks. The meeting has been scheduled
for 9 am on January 30 at Baluwatar, Kathmandu.
FSFN Chairman Upendra Yadav addressing a programme
said that the constitution must be rewritten.
TRC at a meeting held in Kathmandu sought extension
of its tenure by one year. TRC's two-year term expires on February
9. The commission has to investigate more than 58,052 complaints
of rights violation that allegedly took place during the decade-long
Maoist insurgency.
CIEDP stated that it had also recommended to the
Government to extend its term by one year. CIEDP spokesperson
Bishnu Pathak said the commission had been preparing to start
data collection from mid-February.
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January 30 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a meeting
with the leaders of the Madhes-based parties asked four questions
with regard to ending the ongoing political deadlock and urged
them to come up with clear answers.
LBRC member Sunil Ranjan Singh said changing LBRC
report without its implementation would be unconstitutional. He
said that the LBRC has no time and additional capacity to revise
the report.
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January 31 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while meeting
a delegation from the NDLF at his official residence in Kathmandu
stated that he is committed to resolve the issues that the Dalit
communities in Nepal have faced.
Foreign Affairs Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat
while appraising the Kathmandu-based foreign envoys said that
Nepal is holding all three-tier of elections - local, provincial
and parliamentary - within the next one year in order to meet
the constitutional deadline.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav directed the officials
concerned to start making necessary preparations for the local
elections.
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February 1 |
Supreme Court scrapped the TRC guidelines for
putting insurgency-era rights violation cases on hold. Thousands
of conflict-era cases were likely to be shelved without conducting
any inquiry if the guidelines were followed.
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February 3 |
MJF-D Chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar said his
party would not participate in civic polls without passage of
a revised the Constitution amendment bill from the Parliament.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal invited the
Madhesi parties at the PM's official residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu,
for a joint meeting and told them that he wanted to move forward
the preparations for local elections and the Constitution amendment
that they sought simultaneously.
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February 4 |
A day after the Government formed a task force
to seek suggestions on the report of the LBRC; its office bearers
say revision of the report is not possible.
MJF-L Chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar addressing
a gathering of MJF-L senior cadres at Golbazaar in Siraha District
said his party would not participate in the elections until the
constitution amendment proposal was passed.
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February 5 |
NC and the agitating Madhes-based parties during
a meeting held at the residence of NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba
in Kathmandu have decided to make collective efforts to secure
two-thirds majority in favor of the seven-point constitution amendment
bill tabled in the Parliament.
TMDP Chairman Mahantha Thakur speaking with journalists
at the Reporters' Club in Kathmandu said no poll would be possible
unless the Constitution was amended.
TRC recommended Government to extend its tenure
by one year. "We have forwarded a written request to the Ministry
of Peace and Reconstruction seeking TRC's term extension," TRC
member Madhabi Bhatta told.
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February 6 |
Deputy Prime Minister
Bimalendra Nidhi while inaugurating the newly constructed building
of the Armed Police Force, Border Security Office in Janakpur city
of Dhanusa District stressed on holding three-tier of elections
within 11 months. |
February 7 |
CPN-UML termed the decision of the ruling parties
and the agitating Madhes-based parties to hold the poll only after
amending the constitution as a conspiracy to derail the ongoing
course of politics and create a political vacuum.
MJF-L Chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar insisted
to hold the elections within the stipulated deadline.
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February 8 |
Local-level Elections 2017 bill has been stalled
in Parliament Secretariat as the bill forwarded to the President's
office for authentication even after a week of its passage by
Parliament.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking at
a press meet organized by Press Center in Chitwan District said
the Government was waiting for an agreement with the agitating
Madhesi Front to announce the date for the local polls.
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February 9 |
An emergency meeting of the Cabinet held at the
Prime Minister's residence in Kathmandu extended the tenure of
TRC and CIEDP by a year.
Leaders of the five major parties directed the
Government to finalize the LBRC report and suggest reasonable
approaches for the delineation of Province no. 2 at the earliest.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav speaking with journalists
in Kathmandu said the Government was not cooperating with the
EC to make sure that the local elections would be held as planned.
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February 10 |
24 cadres of the UDMF were arrested after they
tried to foil the second convention of NRFA, a sister organisation
of NWPP organized in Rajbiraj city of Saptari District.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari authenticated the
Local Level Election Bill and the Election Offence and Punishment
Bill.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during a meeting
held in Lalitpur District requested the main opposition leader
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli not to cast any doubt on the Government's
intention to hold local level elections at the earliest.
ICJ issuing a statement said that the extension
of TRC CIEDP terms without amending the TRC and CIEDP Act will
be meaningless.
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February 11 |
DPM Bimalendra Nidhi accused the main opposition
CPN-UML of sowing the seed of secession in the country charging
CPN-UML had influenced the Constitution promulgation process.
CPN-UML Vice-Chairman Bhim Rawal said that the
CPN-UML was ready to provide constructive support to the incumbent
Government if it announced the date for local polls immediately.
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February 12 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while speaking
at a program organized by CPN-Maoist Centre in Kathmandu said
achievements made through the Maoist 'people's war' would not
be allowed to go in vain at any cost.
Conflict Victims National Society observed on
February 12 as a 'Black Day' and staged an hour-long sit-in in
Kathmandu demanding justice in conflict-era cases.
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February 13 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing a
programme organized by the ACORAB in Kathmandu called all to support
the Government to hold the three tiers of election by January
21, 2018.
EC Spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma said "We have
been working to prepare election related regulations and directives,
which are essential for the polls."
UDMF boycotted the meeting with a Government taskforce
formed to recommend suggestions to address the demand for revisions
in the local units delineations mainly in Province 2.
Advocate Chiranjivi Nepal filed a writ petition
demanding that the Government immediately endorse the LBRC's report
and publish it in the Nepal Gazette for the implementation of
new local units.
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February 14 |
Minister for Industry, Nabindra Raj Joshi, who
is also a member of the taskforce formed by the Government to
study the report prepared by LBRC said that it would submit its
report to the Government on February 16.
CPN-UML at the Standing Committee meeting of the
party at Chairman KP Sharma Oli's residence in Balkot drew the
Government's attention to the need to hold all three elections
-- local, provincial and the parliamentary - by mid-December 2017.
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February 15 |
Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist has intensified
its extortion drive from businesspersons and institutions both
within Kathmandu Valley and beyond, creating terror among them.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal told CEC Ayodhi
Yadav that the Government was committed to announcing civic poll
dates by February 19.
UDMF said that it won't accept the report of the
LLRC until the local units are delineated in proportion to the
size of the population living in Tarai-Madhes.
TRC and CIEDP decided to accept complaints of
conflict victims again. CIEDP Spokesperson Bishnu Pathak said
the commission would issue a notice by mid-March. Meanwhile, TRC
member Madhabi Bhatta told that the body would take a decision
to this effect once its regular business resumes.
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February 16 |
Task Force formed by the Government to study the
report prepared by the LBRC suggested increasing the number of
local bodies in Province 2.
UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal, Valerie Julliand,
during her meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at the
latter's office urged international standards for TRC and CIEDP.
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February 17 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the
inaugural ceremony of the general convention of the RPP at Exhibition
Road in Kathmandu said that he will work on election preparations
and constitution amendment simultaneously.
LBRC member Neeraj Shah said chances of revising
the report prepared by the LBRC are slim as LBRC has only three
weeks left to complete its remaining tasks.
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February 18 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal held consultations
with the UDMF over various issues including local polls and constitution
amendment. However, the meeting could not bear any fruit after
both the parties did not budge an inch.
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February 19 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while inaugurating
Mahapuran Saptaha, a weeklong recitation of ancient Hindu scriptures
in Lahan town of Siraha District said that he will declare an
election date only after reaching an agreement with the agitating
Madhes-based parties.
Ruling NC and CPN-Maoist Center at a meeting at
the Prime Minister's residence decided to announce local poll
dates as soon as possible.
LBRC Chief Balananda Paudel told Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal that revision of the report will not be possible
as the commission has only a few days before its tenure expires.
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February 20 |
Government decided to hold local elections on
May 14 after 20 years. A cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister's
official residence in Kathmandu decided to hold the local level
poll across the country in a single phase amid opposition from
the agitating Madhes-based political parties.
Government extended the deadline of the taskforce
formed to study the report prepared by the LLRC by seven days.
The taskforce was formed on February 2 with a 15-day deadline
for making revisions in the report prepared by LLRC about the
numbers and boundaries of local units to be delineated under the
federal setup.
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February 21 |
UDMF cadres took to streets in Birgunj city of
Parsa District in protest of the announcement of local election
date by Government and burnt Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's
effigy.
UDMF cadres took out a torch rally in Rajbiraj,
the District headquarters of Saptari, to protest the Government's
announcement of the date to hold the local level election.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking at
a function organized at the Press Council Nepal's premises claimed
that people, who he said are more concerned about direct impacts
of political changes on their life, would be connected to the
federal democratic republic through local elections.
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February 23 |
The Parliament finally began general discussions
on the Constitution amendment bill nearly three months after its
registration.
Opposition parties said they would allow voting
on the Constitution amendment bill in parliament only if the agitating
Madhes-based parties give a commitment to participate in the local
polls.
CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli said that his
party would not let the Legislature-Parliament pass the Constitution
amendment bill for it was against people will.
Federal Socialist Forum and Naya Shakti Party
in a joint press statement protested the announcement of local
poll date.
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February 24 |
Federal Alliance a meeting of the alliance held
in Kathmandu decided to launch a movement against the Government's
decision to hold polls on May 14.
Naya Shakti Party has ruled out the possibility
of holding local polls as local levels were yet to be finalized
and constitution amendment bill was still to be decided as both
were interrelated to holding the election.
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February 25 |
Manish Kumar Suman, General Secretary of the Sadbhawana
Party, a key constituent of the UDMF, said the UDMF would withdraw
the support given to the Government within next 24 to 48 hours.
Nepali Congress Central Working Committee member
NP Saud said the elections would be held on May 14 as announced
by the Government even if the Madhesi parties would boycott it.
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February 26 |
Cadres of UDMF clashed with Police as they staged
a demonstration in the Rautahat District headquarters Gaur in
a bid to thwart a function being organized by the main opposition
CPN-UML.
Constitution Amendment Bill brought in by the
Government got a total of 15 amendment proposals from lawmakers
of various political parties, including the agitating Madhesi
parties and the ruling parties.
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February 27 |
Government has started consultations with political parties on
how it can proceed with the constitution amendment bill in the
next meeting of the Parliament scheduled for March 1.
Madhes-based parties in Saptari District ruled out chances of
local polls across the region, citing the prevailing confusion
surrounding federalism-related issues and power sharing modality
between federal and central Governments.
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February 28 |
A bomb was recovered on the premises of Peace
Zone English Boarding School in Rajbiraj of Saptari District.
Central Coordinator of JTLF-R Jayakrishna Goit issued a press
statement taking responsibility for the crime.
The Parliament meeting scheduled for March 2 has
been postponed until March 10 as parties fail to make any headway
towards endorsing or withdrawing the Constitution amendment bill
currently being discussed at the House.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the
nation urged the Madhesi people to utilize the upcoming local
level election as an opportunity to express their grievances.
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March 1 |
Top leaders of the ruling alliance and the UDMF
held discussion at the official residence of Prime Minister and
discussed issues concerning the local level elections and the
proposed amendment to the Constitution. However, they could not
reach any agreement on the crucial issues.
Of the seven UDMF parties in the alliance, six
have refused to register their parties with the EC. These parties
are: National Madhes Socialist Party, Nepal Sadbhawana Party,
Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum- Republican, Tarai Madhes Democratic
Party, Sadbhawana Party and Tarai Madhes Sadbhawana Party-Nepal.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, during a meeting with Foreign Minister
Prakash Sharan Mahat in Geneva has pledged increased engagement
of his office to protect and promote human rights in Nepal.
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March 2 |
CPN-UML and UDMF cadres clashed in Rajbiraj of
Saptari District while the former were distributing pamphlets
related to a campaign. But, Police arrived on the scene on time
and brought the situation under control.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while meeting
the officials of NEFIN at his residence in Kathmandu conceded
that the Constitution amendment bill tabled in the Parliament
would not get passed under the present circumstances.
TMDP and SP instructed their leaders to prepare
for the next movement against local level elections.
EC Spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma said that
81 parties have been registered with the EC showing their interest
to contest in the upcoming local election slated for May 14.
LBRC has sent a formal letter to the Government
informing that its remaining task might not be completed by the
March 13 deadline.
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March 3 |
UDMF cadres tarred the face of CPN-UML District
Committee member Pratap Narayan Chaudhary, who, among other CPN-UML
cadres, were distributing pamphlets at Machha Hatiya in Saptari
District, in a bid to make the Mechi-Mahakali campaign successful.
SC ordered the Government to furnish a written
statement about the Government's preparations for holding all
three tiers of elections by January 21, 2018 in line with the
provisions of the new constitution.
Dismayed at the failure of the ruling parties
to push the seven-point amendment bill through parliament, the
agitating UDMF is mulling withdrawing its support to the Government.
Task-force formed by the Government to review
the number of local units proposed by the LLRC proposed to increase
the number of local units by 25 making the total number of local
units 744.
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March 4 |
Federal Alliance reiterated that the local level
elections announced for May 14 should be postponed and they should
be held after the formation of provincial Governments by themselves.
TMDP Chairman Mahantha Thakur speaking at an interaction
organized at Reporters Club in Kathmandu accused Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal of backtracking on his commitment expressed
in the three-point agreement.
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March 5 |
Government decided to form 744 local units across
the country. The Government decided to review the LBRC report
and took the decision to add 25 local units than the commission
recommended as the Madhes-based parties as well as locals from
some other Districts expressed dissatisfaction over the report.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking to
journalists at Biratnagar Airport claimed that elections of the
local level would not stop at any cost.
UDMF affiliated parties are preparing to intensify
the protest program in the Tarai-Madhesh region after mid-March
against the announcement of the date of the local polls before
the constitution amendment.
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March 6 |
Three persons were killed in Police firing in
Maleth, a VDC of Saptari District after a clash between them and
protesters of the UDMF. The deceased have been identified as Sanjan
Mehata, Aananda Sah and Pitambar Mandal. 25 UDMF cadres and three
Policemen were also injured in the clash.
Irked by the Saptari incident, at an emergency
UDMF meeting held in Kathmandu, the UDMF leaders have threatened
to withdraw their support to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led Government.
A writ petition filed at the SC against the Government's
decision to increase the number of local units. The move comes
a day after a cabinet meeting on March 5 decided to add 25 more
local units to the total 719 units proposed by the LBRC.
LBRC Chairman Balananda Paudel said that it is
unlikely to finish all tasks within deadline. He said that it
could only provide theoretical framework on special, protected,
and autonomous regions to the government, as completing the remaining
tasks within the stipulated deadline was almost impossible for
them.
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March 7 |
An indefinite strike called by the cadres of UDMF
crippled the lives of people in the Tarai region.
Cadres of UDMF vandalized the city office of CPN-UML
at Lahan town of Saptari District. They carried the furniture
and the documents of the office on the road before putting fire
on the materials. They chanted slogans against the CPN-UML.
A group of protestors vandalized the vehicle belonging
to Janakpur Regional Office of NHRC in Rajbiraj, the headquarters
Saptari District. According to the witness, the group chanted
slogans against the officials of the NHRC before they attacked
the vehicle.
Federal Alliance at a meeting of the alliance
held decided to withdraw its support to the Government unless
the announcement of the local level polls is withdrawn.
CPN-UML General Secretary Ishwar Pokhrel at a
press conference organized by the party in Kathmandu said that
there was a conspiracy to murder all the top leaders of the party
in March 6's mass meeting on the premises of Gajendra Narayan
Singh Industrial Zone in Saptari District.
CPN-UML Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said "We demand
that the government create political and administrative environment
to hold the local polls. The elections can be and must be held
as the failure to conduct the polls will lead to the new constitution's
failure."
United Nations in Nepal said that it is seriously
concerned by the escalation of tensions in the lead-up to the
local elections announced for May.
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March 8 |
Death toll rises to four in Police firing in Saptari
District as one more person succumbed to his injuries. Birendra
Mehata has died at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in
course of treatment.
A cadre of UDMF was injured in Birgunj town of
Parsa District as local businessmen retaliated against the agitating
cadres of UDMF who reportedly manhandled a Mina Bazar-based shopkeeper
while enforcing the second day of general shutdown called to protest
the fatal police firing in Saptari District.
UDMF submitted a five-point memorandum to Prime
Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal at latter's official residence in
Kathmandu. Dahal assured the UDMF leaders that he would hold discussion
with the ruling parties and the opposition and decide accordingly.
At a meeting held between leaders of the three
major parties - NC, CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center - at the Prime
Minister's residence, the CPN-UML has turned down the Government's
plea to halt its Mechi-Mahakali National Campaign. The party decided
to resume the campaign from Hetauda on March 10.
At a meeting held between leaders of the three
major parties - NC, CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center - at the Prime
Minister's residence, the CPN-UML has turned down the Government's
plea to halt its Mechi-Mahakali National Campaign. The party decided
to resume the campaign from Hetauda on March 10.
At a meeting held between leaders of the three
major parties - NC, CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center - at the Prime
Minister's residence, the CPN-UML has turned down the Government's
plea to halt its Mechi-Mahakali National Campaign. The party decided
to resume the campaign from Hetauda on March 10.
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March 9 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that the
elections were inevitable in order to decentralize the Government's
power to the local level.
EC spokesman Surya Prasad Sharma said that the
EC is deploying chief election officer, election officers and
other support staff to the grounds from April 16.
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March 10 |
Death toll rises to five in Police firing in Saptari
District as one more person succumbed to his injuries. InarYadav
(34) died at BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences where he
was admitted to the ICU with bullet injuries in his chest.
CPN-UML's Mechi-Mahakali campaign, which was halted
for three days following the Saptari incident, resumed from Hetauda
on March 10.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal
Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa during a program organized
at the Ministry at Singha Durbar said that the 744 local units
delineated under the new federal setup will come into effect from
March 25.
Police arrested 96 bandh enforcers said from various
places. Police said they were obstructing the vehicular movement
and trying to enforce the bandh.
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March 11 |
Bandh enforcers torched a Sajha Yatayat bus while
it was awaiting passengers at Balaju Bypass in Katmhandu. However,
some Policemen saw the flames and immediately doused it. Four
seats have been gutted in the incident.
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March 12 |
Top leaders of CPN-UML addressing the mass gathering
organized at Anchalpur of Rupandehi District said that they will
not allow the endorsement of the constitution amendment bill through
parliament at any cost.
FSF-N Chairman Upendra Yadav speaking at a press
conference organized in Saptari District said the people would
retaliate if the Government tries to suppress 'peaceful' movement
in Madhes.
Chairman of tSadbhavana Party Rajendra Mahato
during a press meet organized by the Press Forum Saptari urged
the CPN-UML to participate in the constitution amendment which
would ensure timely election.
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March 13 |
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli met Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal and told him that he would not support the
Constitution amendment bill. They also held discussions on other
contemporary issues but there was no agreement on any issue.
CPN-UML reached Kapilvastu and Dang Districts
during the Mechi-Mahakali National Campaign. The party organized
its first mass meeting of the day in Jitpur of Kapilvastu whereas
the second function was held in Lamahi of Dang.
Deputy Prime Minister and RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa
speaking with journalists in Kathmandu said his party would withdraw
support extended to the Government if the Constitution amendment
bill stalled at the Parliament was put to vote.
LBRC submitted its final report to the Government,
without delineating special, autonomous and protected areas as
assigned by the Constitution.
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March 14 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal inaugurated
the operation of 744 new local levels across the country. Dahal
said a new era of local level governance has started, addressing
the function.
UDMF leaders said we are no longer a part of the
governing coalition now onward. "
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli addressing a mass
meeting organized as part of its Mechi-Mahakali campaign in Nepalgunj
city in Banke District urged UDMF leaders not to rake up communal
sentiments in the name of politics.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli addressing a mass
meeting organized as part of its Mechi-Mahakali campaign in Nepalgunj
city in Banke District urged UDMF leaders not to rake up communal
sentiments in the name of politics.
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March 15 |
UDMF cadres vandalized sign boards installed at
rural municipality offices as part of their protest against restructuring
of local bodies in Rautahat District.
Representing the UDMF, TMSP Chairman Mahendra
Raya Yadav announced that they have withdrawn their support extended
to the incumbent Government in the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament.
Announcing the same, the constituent parties of the agitating
bloc walked out of the House.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in a meeting
with leaders of the agitating UDMF proposed that the Constitution
amendment bill would be endorsed before the May 14 local polls,
withdrawing provisions regarding delineation of provinces from
the proposal.
In view of the upcoming May 14 local elections,
the Judicial Council deputed 255 under-secretaries to work as
returning officers for various local government units.
Conflict victims demanded resignation of office
bearers of the TRC for 'delaying' investigation into insurgency-era
rights violation cases.
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March 16 |
Ministry of Home Affairs issued a circular to
District administrations across the country to submit a comprehensive
report outlining potential security challenges to the local polls
scheduled for May 14 and the measures they would take to meet
those challenges.
Government taskforce formed to verify more victims
of the conflict has verified an additional 3,830 individuals who
have suffered in various ways from the insurgency period.
After announcing that it withdrew the support
extended to the Government, the Federal Alliance announced fresh
protest programmes to start from March 17.
UDMF officially handed over the letter of withdrawal
to Speaker Onsari Gharti. The leaders of the Madhesh-based four
parties jointly handed over the letter to the Secretary of the
Speaker.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made another
attempt to convince the agitating UDMF to accept the May 14 local
level elections, but failed.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli claimed that the
issue of endorsement of the constitution amendment bill being
raised by the Madhesh-centric political parties was a pretext
to create division between Hill and Tarai.
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March 17 |
Cadres of UDMF vandalized signboards of various
newly created rural municipalities in Siraha District. They also
padlocked various offices of rural municipalities in the District,
expressing dissatisfaction over the restructuring of the local
units under the new federal structure.
Lawmakers of NC representing the Tarai-Madhes
region at a meeting in Kathmandu concluded that the party should
take initiatives to ensure endorsement of the Constitution amendment
bill stuck at the Parliament.
SP Chairman Rajendra Mahato speaking at a press
meet organized by Rautahat-based Press Manch Nepal in Gaur said
that the country's bad days would begin if the local level elections
were held without provincial border delineation based on demands
of UDMF.
Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav
apprised Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the preparations
being held for the upcoming May 14 local level elections.
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March 18 |
Jamim Bhat (65), an UDMF cadre who was injured
in a clash with Police while protesting CPN-UML's Mechi-Mahakali
Campaign in Nepalgunj of Banke District died in the course of
treatment. He had sustained injuries during the clash with Police
on March 15.
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March 19 |
UDMF cadres padlocked the offices of 17 local
levels in Saptari District. UDMF activists padlocked the offices
of all municipalities and rural municipalities immediately after
the offices opened. UDMF disrupted a meeting held by the Rautahat
District Election Office to fix voting centres for the local level
elections.
UDMF boycotted meeting of the Legislature-Parliament.
They boycotted the meeting citing demand of constitution amendment,
the major demand of the UDMF, was not addressed.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his meeting
with Government secretaries at his office directed the authorities
concerned to expedite the formulation of all federal laws demanded
by the constitution.
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March 20 |
UDMF boycotted Parliament meeting. Lawmaker Dimpal
Kumari Jha, speaking in the outset of the meeting from the UDMF
side, urged the Government to form a probe committee to investigate
into Saptari and Kanchanpur incidents.
CPN-UML told a four-party meeting that it wanted
to know what would satisfy the UDMF to take part in the local
polls. After the meeting, CPN-UML Deputy Parliamentary Party leader
Subas Chandra Nembang told that the major parties had made the
first amendment to the constitution, yet that did not satisfy
the UDMF.
The task force formed to submit report to the
Government on conflict victims started its work from Rukum District.
A five-member task force that will collect details of conflict-affected
individuals and families reached the District.
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March 21 |
Madhes-centric parties boycotted the house session
of the Legislature-Parliament. Madhesi lawmakers including those
associated with Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, Tarai-Madhes Loktantrik
Party and Sadbhawana Party chanted slogans informing their boycott
of the House meeting.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing a
meeting of the CPN-Maoist Center parliamentary party held at Singha
Durbar in Kathmandu sought to dispel any doubt lawmakers of his
party had about the local level elections slated for May 14.
CPN-UML Chairman K P Sharma Oli has said that
the upcoming elections will vehemently oppose and respond to the
regional politics and forces involved in disharmonizing the social
cohesion. He added that the people will answer those forces by
giving a majority seats to his party from upcoming elections.
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March 22 |
High-Level Probe Commission formed with mandate
to investigate the incidents of violence and killings occurred
during the Tharuhat-Madhes movement started on-site investigation
into the incidents from Dhanusha District headquarters, Janakpur.
CPN-Maoist Center at the Central Office meeting
of the party chaired by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal decided
to work for endorsing the Constitution amendment bill, putting
the issue of revision of provincial boundary on hold for now.
Naya Shakti Party Nepal Coordinator Dr Baburam
Bhattarai speaking at the public gathering organized by the party
in Lahan of Siraha District warned that the country would plunge
into conflict if elections were held forcefully without amendment
of the constitution.
Office bearers of TRC held a meeting in absence
of its Chairman Surya Kiran Gurung. The meeting presided over
by the TRC's senior member Leela Udasi endorsed a work plan, pledging
to commence preliminary investigation into insurgency-era rights
violations complaints from mid-April.
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March 23 |
MoHA on the basis of threat assessment reports
received from local administrations across the country has said
that even as nearly all polling stations in the Tarai plains remain
susceptible to election-related violence and possible disruptions,
the biggest challenge for poll security may come from the eight
districts of Province 2.
CPN-Maoist Center provided NR 600,000 to the family
of martyr Govinda Gautam. Gautam was killed in a scuffle between
the Nepali nationals and Indian SSB personnel at Ananda Bazaar
over the issue of construction of a culvert in Punarbas of Kanchanpur
District on March 9.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during a meeting
with other political parties including the agitating UDMF at his
residence in Kathmandu proposed to drop the clause pertaining
to federal boundaries from the constitution amendment bill tabled
in Parliament and endorse the remaining parts.
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March 24 |
Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato talking
to media persons at Janakpur airport said the constitution should
be amended before holding local level elections.
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March 25 |
DPM Kamal Thapa at a programme organized by RPP
in Makawanpur District said that the Government is working to
bring the Madhes-centric political parties in the election to
strengthen democracy and end the country's existing political
crisis.
Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato speaking
at a press conference in Sarlahi District headquarters Malangawa
ruled out possibility of elections without amending the constitution.
CIEDP spokesperson Bishnu Pathak said that CIEDP
is entering crucial phase of investigation but the Government
has not yet criminalized torture.
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March 26 |
FSF-N Chairman Upendra Yadav speaking at a condolence
ceremony organized to pay respect to five persons killed during
the CPN-UML's Mechi-Mahakali campaign at Gajendranarayan Singh
Industrial Area in Rajbiraj town of Saptari District charged that
NC, CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Center's latest activities had increased
the possibility of failure of the new statute.
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March 27 |
NC CWC members at its
meeting were in favor of taking the Madhesi parties on board before
going to local level polls. CWC member Farmullah Mansoor said majority
of the CWC members opined that the party should try to forge consensus
on constituent amendment bill, but if that didn't happen the party
should go for putting the bill to vote. |
March 28 |
Cadres of UDMF, which are against the local elections,
on March 28 picketed the DEO in Mahottari District. The UDMF has
resumed their protest programs in order to heap pressure on the
Government to amend the constitution prior to local election slated
for May 14.
CPN-UML's Central Committee member Suman Pyakurel's
wife and daughter-in-law - Jyoti and Raktim Jyoti respectively
- were encircled, verbally abused and mistreated by a group of
UDMF cadres when they were in Rajbiraj of Saptari District for
a family affair.
Signaling some progress in the informal negotiation
initiated by the parties to end the political deadlock, UDMF leaders
involved in talks with the major parties said UDMF is ready to
back down for now from its demand on province demarcations if
the major three parties reciprocated its calls for a powerful
federal commission.
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March 29 |
Over a dozen of cadres and leaders, including
Sadbhawana Party central member Yogendra Yadav quit the party
en masse. Sadbhawana Party central member and chief of the Department
of Youth Yadav said that he could not stay in the party as undemocratic
system and racist policy had tarnished the party and his personal
image.
Ministry of Home Affairs stated that the necessary
preparations have been completed for security arrangements for
the local level election slated for May 14.
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March 30 |
Cadres of UDMF vandalized offices of the DDC and
the Rajbiraj Municipality in Rajbiraj of Saptari District.
20 Sadbhawana Party leaders, including three central
leaders, resigned en masse.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal dismissing any
possibility of postponing the election as demanded by the agitating
parties said that the local level elections would be held at any
cost on May 14.
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March 31 |
UDMF is preparing to organize protests aimed at
disrupting the election environment but the election fever is
gradually gripping the protest-hit Province 2 with the poll date
approaching fast.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal told the UDMF
to seek revision of provincial boundaries after local polls but
before provincial and parliamentary polls.
A meeting of the ruling parties and the UDMF asked
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to prepare a new Constitution
amendment proposal so as to bring agitating UDMF on board the
local level election process.
Legislature-Parliament's State Affairs Committee
directed the Government to form a high level committee including
the area experts for the administrative restructuring and the
personnel management to suit the federal set up.
Barsha Man Pun, a CPN-Maoist Center leader and
confidant of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking with journalists
in Kathmandu claimed that an informal agreement has already been
made to bring the agitating UDMF on board the election process.
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April 2 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal receiving a
memorandum submitted by the Madhesi Ethnic Coordination Society
assured local level elections in normal environment.
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April 3 |
Leaders and cadres of the Federal Alliance took
to the streets of Kathmandu in a show of strength, resulting in
a brief traffic jam in downtown Kathmandu.
TMDP Chairperson Mahantha Thakur speaking at his
party's function at Prasauni of Bara District argued that they
would not accept any election held prior to constitution amendment.
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April 4 |
A socket bomb was recovered at a businessman's
residence in Rajbiraj of Saptari District. Police also recovered
the leaflets issued in the name of JTMM led by Jayakrishna Goit.
Police arrested two cadres of the Netra Bikram
Chand-led CPN-Maoist for their involvement in the murder of NC
District leader Rabindra Shumsher Shah (36) in Jajarkot District.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while addressing
an orientation programme of the National Federation of Indigenous
Nationalities Province No 3 at his party office said the major
agenda before the State is holding the local level election successfully.
More than a dozen District level leaders and cadres
have left the NMSP led by Sharatsingh Bhandari in Saptari District.
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April 5 |
Police arrested three cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led
CPN-Maoist who were campaigning for boycotting the civic polls
in Triyuga Bazaar area in Udayapur District.
Minister for Energy Janardan Sharma said that
the local level elections would be held only after addressing
the demands of the Madhes-based parties.
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April 6 |
CPN-Maoist Center at a meeting of the party's
Central Office held at the Prime Minister's residence in Kathmandu
asked the Government to withdraw the Constitution amendment bill
stuck at the Parliament and bring a new one to address concerns
of agitating Madhesi parties.
TMDP Chairperson Mahantha Thakur speaking at a
party function in Pokhariya of Parsa District warned of bloodshed
in the plains if the Government tried to hold the civic polls
through use of force.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav addressing a two-day Training
of Trainers on election management organized at Godavari, Lalitpur
District urged the Government to reach to a concrete decision
as soon as possible on the problem that has been voiced in the
Madhes regarding the election.
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April 7 |
Nepal Police selected 74, 500 temporary Police
in view of security for the upcoming local polls slated for May
14.
EC said that it would distribute voter identity
cards needed to cast votes in the local level elections from May
11 to 13.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli addressing a function
in Kathmandu accused the Madhesi parties of confusing people by
raising "unnecessary agendas.
UDMF leaders stressed that the local elections
should be held across the country the same day and if time permits
on May 14 itself.
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April 8 |
Police arrested 18 cadres of UDMF from Lahan in
Siraha District when they tried to obstruct a program of CPN-UML.
Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Ajay Shankar Nayak said that Government would withdraw the current
constitution amendment bill from the Parliament on April 10 and
register a new bill in the House.
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April 9 |
EC said that four Districts of Province 2 have
finalized polling stations for the local level elections slated
for May 14. Out of eight Districts in Province 2, Bara, Parsa,
Dhanusha, and Sarlahi Districts have sent reports finalizing polling
stations.
A parliamentary sub-committee formed under lawmaker
Moktar Ahmed to investigate the Saptari incident submitted its
report recommending action against security personnel who used
indiscriminate force against protesters.
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April 10 |
Government registered a new constitution amendment
bill at the Parliament Secretariat.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while inaugurating
the 51st General Assembly of FNCCI in Kathmandu urged entrepreneurs
to provide necessary support to the government for successful
completion of the upcoming local level elections slated for May
14.
The meeting of Standing Committee of CPN-UML decided
to not extend support to the new constitution amendment bill bound
to be registered at the Parliament.
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April 11 |
Lawmakers of UDMF boycotted the Legislature-Parliament
meeting. With the commencement of the meeting, UDMF-affiliated
lawmakers stood up from their respective seats after Speaker Onsari
Gharti gave time to Akbal Ahamad Sah to put his views.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the
inaugural function of Chandragiri Mahotsav in Balambu, on the
south-western outskirts of Kathmandu said that the local level
elections are very significant as local levels will get to exercise
executive, legislative and judicial rights.
EC fixed polling stations in all 75 Districts
for the local level elections slated for May 14. Based on the
recommendations of the political parties and bureaucrats in the
Districts, the EC finalized the polling stations across the country,
including in the remaining six Districts of Province 2.
Amid growing differences between political parties
over conducting the local-level elections on the stipulated date,
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav said the Election Commission is committed
to conducting the elections on May 14 and there's no chance of
backtracking.
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April 12 |
In a major setback to the Government's latest
attempt to bring the agitating Madhes-based parties on board the
election process, the UDMF rejected the new constitution amendment
bill registered in Parliament.
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April 13 |
UDMF staged a protest rally in Rautahat District
headquarters Gaur criticizing the major political parties for
their apathy towards amending the statute as per the demand of
the Madhes.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal urged senior
leaders of the Madhesh-centric parties to avoid agitation and
instead come to consensus and collaboration.
Prime Minister Puspha Kamal Dahal also Chairman
of CPN-Maoist Centre speaking at a party unification programme
to declare the unification between the party and Communist Party
of Nepal headed by leftist leader Tanka Rai in Kathmandu said
he is all committed to uniting all the Communist parties including
the Maoist Revolutionary existing in the country.
Six constituent parties of UDMF - TMDP, SP, NMSP,
MPRF-R, TMSP and FSP -agreed in principle to merge, in a fresh
bid to form a strong force representing the Tarai. Upendra Yadav-led
FSF-N, however, is not involved in the talks.
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April 14 |
Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa speaking at
an interaction organized by Reporters Club Nepal in Kathmandu
said that the Government is all set to hold local-level election
even if the agitating Madhesi parties do not partake in it.
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April 15 |
Madhesi lawmakers of NC and leaders from Province
2 at a meeting held in NC Central Office in Sanepa of Lalitpur
District suggested that the NC take the UDMF on board the election
process.
Senior TRC member Lila Udasi Khanal said that
TRC has prepared an 'implementation plan' for probing insurgency-era
rights violation cases and recommending action against perpetrators
and reparation for victims.
Jaya Krishna Goit-led JTMM planted a socket bomb
at the Om Shree Roshan Emporium in Rajbiraj, the District headquarters
of Saptari District in a bid to terrorize locals in the run-up
to the May 14 local level elections.
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April 16 |
Cadres of UDMF staged a sit-in in Gaur of Rautahat
District expressing their dissatisfaction over the local level
elections slated for May 14.
UDMF announced various protest programmes in a
bid to foil electioneering and the local level elections scheduled
for May 14. Federal Alliance unveiled different protest programs
with a view to disrupting the local polls slated for May 14.
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Ajay Shankar Nayak speaking at an interaction program held in
Kathmandu remarked that the announcement of the Madhes-centric
political parties for fresh agitations against the upcoming local
level elections was nothing more than a drama.
Kavre District Court sent three Nepal Army officials
to jail for life for the murder of Maina Sunar (15), a teenage
girl, during the Maoist insurgency. This is the first ever case
in which any Nepal Army official was convicted of a crime during
the decade-long armed conflict (1996-2006).
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April 17
|
Unidentified persons set a NC liaison office,
opened to carry out electioneering activities, on fire, in the
wee hours in Gulara of Kailali District in a bid to foil the local
level elections slated for May 14.
Naya Shakti Party Nepal Coordinator Baburam Bhattarai
said, ?Elections would be impossible until the demands of the
Tarai people ? comprising 52 per cent of the country?s population
? were addressed. As the government didn?t heed their demand for
amending the constitution, the front didn?t have any alternative
but to resort to protest.?
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April 18
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UDMF organized a torch rally in Birgunj town of
Parsa District against the Government?s decision to hold the local
level elections on May 14.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during a meeting
of politburo members of CPN-Maoist Centre from Province-3 in Kathmandu
disclosed that he is under intense pressure to defer the local-level
elections scheduled for May 14.
UN asked Nepal to implement life sentence against
three Army officials without delay. UN welcomed the conviction
of three Army officials on Maina Sunar?s extrajudicial killing
during Maoist conflict.
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April 19
|
Five major political parties in Parliament including
NC, CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Centre, RPP and MPRF-D during a meeting
held at Baluwatar in Kathmandu have reiterated their commitment
to holding the local polls on the stipulated date.
Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi speaking
at a western regional security symposium organized in Pokhara
city of Kaski District said that local level elections will be
held on the slated date.
Physical Infrastructure and Transport Minister
Ramesh Lekhak speaking at a press conference organized by Nepal
Press Union, Dadeldhura District claimed nobody can now prevent
the local election due on May 14.
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April 20
|
Madhesi lawmakers boycotted the Parliament meeting.
The lawmakers left the House soon after a lawmaker Akbal Amshad
Sah spoke at the outset of the meeting that the Government did
not address their demands.
Six constituents of the UDMF formed a unified
party called RJP. Among the UDMF constituents that untied are
TMDP, SP, TMSP-N, NMSP, MJF-R and NSP. The only constituent of
the UDMF that did not become a part of the RJP is FSF-N, which
has been trying to unify with Baburam Bhattarai-led Naya Shakti
Party-Nepal.
TRC member Madhabi Bhatta writing a letter to
the TRC secretariat urged the Secretariat to call an immediate
meeting of the transitional body.
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April 21
|
Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi speaking
at the Central Regional Security Conference organized at Dhulikhel
in Kavrepalanchowk District warned that anyone attempting to foil
the upcoming local elections will be subjected to punishment.
The agitating Madhesi parties hinted that they
are ready to take part in the local level elections after the
major ruling parties ensured them of addressing their concerns
by reviewing the new bill on constitution amendment.
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April 22
|
The ruling alliance and UDMF at a meeting held
at the Prime Minister?s residence have reached an agreement to
hold local-level elections in two phases.
The Government and Federal Alliance reached an
agreement to hold local-level elections in two phases.
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April 23
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The Government decided to hold the second phase
of local level elections on June 14.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal briefing leaders
about the deal with the Federal Alliance said the second phase
of local elections will be conducted under a Government led by
NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli told Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal that his party would put forth its take on
the agreement reached between the Government and the Federal Alliance
only after his party got the points of agreement in writing.
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April 24 |
CPN-UML at a meeting of the party's Standing Committee
asked the Government to hold the local level elections in a single
phase on May 14 as scheduled.
CPN-UML Chairman K P Sharma Oli addressing the
Parliament meeting said that the party cannot support the decision
of the Government to revise the constitution amendment bill which
is under discussion in the Parliament.
In a bid to accommodate parties under the Federal
Alliance in the upcoming local elections, the EC revised its scheduled
programs for the first phase of the elections and unveiled new
programs for the second phase scheduled for June 14.
|
April 25 |
CPN-UML lawmakers obstructed the Parliament demanding
response from the Government on the Ministry of Local Development's
circular on increasing the number of local levels in four provinces
forcing the Speaker to adjourn the meeting briefly.
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April 26 |
CPN-UML obstructed the Parliament, protesting
the Government's decision to increase the number of local levels
in 11 Districts at the time local level elections were already
scheduled.
Bowing to pressure from the opposition alliance,
the Government has withdrawn its controversial amendment proposal
that would increase the number of local units in 11 select Districts
in the Tarai-Madhes.
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April 27 |
A meeting of the nine party-alliance led by the
main opposition CPN-UML held at the CPN-UML's parliamentary party
office at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu decided to foil the constitution
amendment bill tabled in the Legislature-Parliament.
CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli inaugurating
the CPN-UML's election publicity campaign at party headquarters
in Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu alleged that the ruling parties were
making an all out effort to disrupt the forthcoming local level
elections - despite their rhetoric that they were serious about
holding it.
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April 28 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during an all-party
meeting at his official residence in Kathmandu urged opposition
parties to support in endorsing the constitutional amendment bill
with revision.
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs,
Ajay Shankar Nayak during an interaction organized by Reporters'
Club Nepal in Kathmandu said constitution would be amended with
the participation of the major opposition CPN-UML.
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April 28 |
After a brief sitting, the Parliament meeting
has been adjourned till May 4. The House will meet at 3 pm on
May 4.
The ruling parties and the parties in the Madhesi
Front registered a joint amendment proposal to the constitution
amendment proposal the Government had registered in the Legislature-Parliament
before.
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April 30 |
The parliamentary party meeting of the main opposition
CPN-UML has directed its lawmakers to foil the constitution amendment
bill registered by the ruling parties in the Parliament.
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May 1 |
ATMM led by Ajay Yadav aka Ajit Singh has merged
with the second largest party CPN-UML at a programme held at Lalapatti
Village in Saptari District. Ajit Singh had been living an independent
life after submitting arms to the Government two years ago.
ATMM led by Ajay Yadav aka Ajit Singh has merged
with the second largest party CPN-UML at a programme held at Lalapatti
Village in Saptari District. Ajit Singh had been living an independent
life after submitting arms to the Government two years ago.
|
May 2 |
Nominations for the first phase of local level
polls were filed in a peaceful manner. The EC said all major political
parties - the NC, CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Centre and RPP - and independent
candidates filed their nominations for the first phase of polls
slated for May 14.
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May 3 |
Upendra Yadav-led FSF-N issued a press release
announced it would not take part in the second phase of local
elections if the constitution was not amended before the polls.
In Nuwakot District, a group vandalized the Scorpio
SUV (Ba 11 Cha 3499) owned by Ram Krishna Thapa, the NC candidate
for Shivapuri Rural Municipality and set it on fire.
|
May 6 |
16 persons were injured in clashes between cadres
of the NC and CPN-Maoist Centre over civic polls at different
places in Rukum District. Nine persons were injured at Triveni
Rural Municipality-8. Similarly, seven persons were injured in
at the house of a Dalit candidate from the NC at Musikot-2at Musikot
Municipality-2.
A jeep used in the election campaign was set ablaze
in Thankre Rural Municipality of Dhading District. The jeep was
parked on the premises of the residence of Raj Kumar Poudel, a
CPN-UML candidate for Ward Chair of Thankre-2.
Three cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist
were arrested from different parts of Sindhuli District for carrying
out activities against the May 14 local elections.
Federal Alliance purged Upendra Yadav from its
leadership, apparently for the the Yadav-led Federal Socialist
Forum Nepal's decision to take part in the local level elections
before the constitution amendment, and chose Mahantha Thakur of
Rastriya Janata Dal Nepal it's new coordinator.
|
May 7 |
Police arrested four persons including the Janakpur
Zonal Bureau Chief of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN- Maoist in possession
of bomb making materials from Bardibas in Mahottari District.
|
May 8 |
Four persons were injured
when a clash broke out between the cadres of CPN-Maoist Centre and
CPN-UML at Chainpur in Dhading District. |
May 9 |
CPN-UML cadre Kul Bahadur Tamang succumbed to
injuries after cadres of CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre clashed
at Jungu of Gaurishankar Rural Municipality in Dolakha District
during their campaigns for the upcoming local level elections.
A local teacher Dil Bahadur Budhathoki, who is believed to be
close to the CPN-UML sustained serious injuries.
Police arrested two Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-
Maoist cadres for their involvement in anti-poll activities from
Shivaghat of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Chitwan District.
Police recovered some explosives and two pieces of detonators
from them.
Federal Alliance led by Mahantha Thakur announced
fresh stir against local polls after its meeting with three major
parties - the NC, the CPN-Maoist Centre and the CPN-UML - failed
to forge consensus on constitutional issues.
|
May 10 |
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli rejected NC President
Sher Bahadur Deuba's proposal to back the constitution amendment
bill.
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav speaking in the face-to-face
programme organized by Reporters Club Nepal in Kathmandu said
the second phase local election date slated for June 14 should
not be changed.
|
May 11 |
A candidate of RPP was found dead in Kavre District
headquarters, Dhulikhel. The deceased is Sukalal Tamang (55),
of Dhulikhel Municipality-12. He was RPP candidate for member
of ward-12.
A bomb planted at a public place near the Purano
Kawasoti intersection at Kawasoti - 3 in Nawalparasi District
exploded. The bomb that targeted a NC assembly actually went off
but did not cause human casualties.
A bomb was recovered at the residence of Mahendra
Pokharel, NC mayoral candidate for Kawasoti Municipality in Nawalparasi
District. The Nepal Army bomb disposal squad defused the bomb
the same night.
A bomb was planted near the residence of Durga
Datta Dhungana, CPN-Maoist Centre mayoral candidate for Gaindakot
Municipality in Nawalparasi District.
Another bomb was found at the residence of Dasiram
Basyal, a CPN-Maoist Centre's mayoral candidate for Kawasoti Municipality
in Nawalparasi District.
|
May 12 |
A powerful bomb was exploded at the house of RPP
leader Madhab Khatri at Duwakot VDC in Bhaktapur District.
An IED exploded at Survey Office in Rajbiraj,
the District headquarters of Saptari District. However, no human
casualty was reported as the incident happened when there were
no service seekers at the office. ATJTMM has taken responsibility
for the incident.
An unidentified group exploded a bomb at the premises
of the Barahi Higher Secondary School, a polling centre for ward
no 6 in Lakeside of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City in Kaski
District.
GEOC released its preliminary report on preparations
for the first phase of local elections, saying there was a risk
of violence during the polls.
|
May 13 |
An unidentified group exploded a bomb at a place
near Baguwa Devithan of Rainash Municipality, Lamjung District.
Police suspect that Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist cadres might
have detonated the improvised explosive device.
An unidentified group kidnapped CPN-Maoist Centre
ward chair candidate Prem Bahadur Rimal of Rapti Municipality
from his municipality-based house in Chitwan District. The CPN-Maoist
Centre claimed that Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist cadres might
have kidnapped Rimal.
Nepal Army's BDS defused two bombs planted at
two separate locations in Dhangadi Sub Metropolitan City in Kailali
District. A presser cooker bomb with a placard reading khatara'
and translated as 'dangerous' was found at Traffic Chauraha Bazaar
in downtown Dhangadi, while another presser cooker bomb wrapped
inside a jute bag was found at a roadside in Manhera Bazaar. According
to District Police Office, Kailali Spokesperson, Bir Bahadur Budhamagar,
the authorities believe that the Maoist cadres led by Biplov group
are behind the activities aimed at spreading terror among the
voters.
Also, the BDS defused a pressure cooker bomb found
on the premises of NC Ward Contact Office in Sharadpur of Bharatpur
Municipality-9 in Chitwan District. Police suspected the involvement
of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist cadres in the terror plot.
|
May 14 |
71 per cent voters in 34 Districts took part in
the local level elections that were held for the first time after
Nepal's new constitution was promulgated in September 2015, according
to the Election Commission.
One NC cadre died in Police firing during a clash
with cadres of CPN-UML in Melung Rural Municipality of Dolakha
District. The one killed in Police firing is identified as Nukul
Bhujel. Police reportedly resorted to firing to contain violent
situation at Pabati polling centre of Melung Rural Municipality
during local level elections.
Dhanarup Batala, a ward chairman candidate from
RPP in Naraharinath Rural Municipality of Kalikot District, succumbed
to injuries. Batala, the candidate of ward number 6 of the Naraharinath,
had received bullets in afternoon after Police open fire when
cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist tried to capture the
ballot boxes. Three others were injured in the incident.
A CPN-UML activist was killed at Pipalbhanjyang
area in Dhading District. Laxman Chepang (30) was beaten to death
with a stick inside an under construction house.
In Nilkantha Municipality - 5 of Dhading District,
four persons were injured during a clash between NC and CPN-UML
activists. CPN-UML accuse NC' activists of blocking their way
following the conclusion of the voting process and attacking them
with Khukuri, a traditional Nepali sword.
Cadres of Biplab-led CPN have taken under control
election materials including ballot boxes in Mugu District. According
to Police, a group of as many as 300 persons belonging to Biplab-led
CPN took forcibly away the election materials at 10:45 am.
A socket bomb was recovered within the premises
of the residence of CPN -UML mayoral candidate for Madhayapur
Thimi Municipality in Bhaktapur District.
|
May 15 |
An IED found near the place of vote counting of
Shankharapur Municipality on the north-eastern outskirts of the
Kathmandu was defused.
A discussion was held between Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal and RJP-N leaders at former's official residence in
Kathmandu. The RJP-N has said that the party could participate
in second phase of local level election slated for June 14 if
their demands were addressed.
|
May 16 |
Chairman of FSF-N Upendra
Yadav speaking at a function organized in Nepalgunj city of Banke
District said there is no alternative to amending the constitution
to make it sustainable. |
May 17 |
Nepal Army defused a pressure cooker bomb in Parasi,
the District headquarters of Nawalparasi. The bomb was planted
near the office gate of the Nawalparasi District Contractors Association.
RJP-N leaders met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal
Dahal and NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba separately and urged
them to create a conducive environment for the second phase of
local polls.
CPN-UML issuing a press release after the meeting
of the party's standing committee urged the Government and the
EC to promptly hold the second round of polls.
Issuing a joint statement, the experts on election
and legal affairs, former bureaucrats and civil society members
urged the EC not to increase the number of local units in southern
plains of the country and revise federal boundaries ahead of the
second phase of local elections scheduled for June 14, arguing
that such moves will be against the established practices and
election laws.
|
May 18 |
A Cabinet meeting held at
the Office of the Prime Minister at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu decided
to accept the Tharuhat Tarai-Madhes movement as a political one. |
May 19 |
NHRC condemned Government's decision to withdraw
charges against cadres of Madhes-Tharuhat.
CPN-UML condemned the Government's decision to
withdraw cases filed against those who were allegedly involved
in criminal offences during the Madhes-Tharuhat movements.
|
May 21 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaking at
the anniversary celebration programme of Janakpur the capital
of Dhanusa District said that Government is working to ratify
statute amendment bill.
Prime Minister Dahal talking to media persons
before addressing a politburo meeting of CPN-Maoist Centre in
Janakpur of Dhanusa District said that the elections in Madhes
would be like festival.
|
May 22 |
Government decided to increase 22 local levels
in the Tarai District. A Cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister
Pushpa Kamal Dahal's residence in Baluwatar took a decision to
this effect. With this, the total number of local levels has reached
766.
EC turned down Prime Minister Dahal's request
to increase the number of local units in Tarai Districts before
second round of local elections arguing that the election body
is already behind the schedule.
|
May 23 |
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav holding a press meet in
Biratnagar city of in Morang District stated that the second phase
of local level elections would be held in all the remaining civic
bodies, including the newly added ones, on the stipulated date
of June 14.
RJPN said that the Government's decision to increase
the number of local units in Tarai falls short of creating a positive
environment for the second phase of local elections.
|
May 24 |
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in a 29-minute
televised address from Singhadarbar in Kathmandu announced his
resignation from the premiership as per the "gentleman agreement"
that was reached with the NC before the formation of the Coalition
Government in August 2016.
|
May 25 |
EC refused to accommodate the new local units
in the second round elections slated for June 14. In a meeting
with outgoing Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other political
leaders, the election commissioners said they cannot reset the
elections in the local units that are in the last stages of poll
preparations.
Balananda Paudel, coordinator of the Local Body
Restructuring Commission said the local units are unfeasible.
"More local units mean more burden on taxpayers as they have to
pay more tax for local governments." Paudel fears.
|
May 26 |
CPN-UML obstructed Parliament proceedings demanding
that the Government roll back its decision to add 22 local levels
in Tarai Districts.
SC stayed the Government's decision to add 22
local levels in Tarai Districts and upgrade some local levels.
Three major Madhes-centric political parties
RJPN, Nepal Loktantrik Forum and Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal
initiated discussions to forge consensus in the upcoming second
phase of local level polls. However, the meeting ended inconclusively.
RJPN organizing a press conference in Kathmandu
announced to boycott the second phase of the local polls accusing
the Government of "not showing enough sincerity to fulfill its
demands".
|
May 27 |
Two cadres of Jaya Krishna Goit led-JTMM-G were
arrested from Rajbiraj- Chhinnamasta road section in Saptari District.
The arrestees are Aditya Sharma (19) and Mohammad Nashir (33).
Police recovered a pistol, two bullets, a mobile phone, 500 gm
marijuana and pamphlets bearing the name of JTMM-G from them.
A four-party meeting held at Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal's official residence in Kathmandu to forge consensus
on the agitating forces demands ended inconclusively. Top leaders
of the NC, the CPN-Maoist Centre, the CPN-UML and the RJPN attended
the meeting.
|
May 28 |
CPN-Maoist Centre cadres tore ballot papers in
Bharatpur Metropolitan City-10 of Chitwan District. Police arrested
two CPN-Maoist Centre cadres Drona Babu Siwakoti and Madhu Neupane
for tearing the ballot papers with votes. Cadres of RJPN on May
28 staged a baton rally at Gaur of Rautahat District to protest
the second round of polls slated for June 14.
Police arrested two cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led
CPN from Danabari in Ilam District for carrying out activities
against the elections. Those arrested are Jharendra Baral and
Dilip Baral.
Ruling parties NC and CPN-Maoist Centre in a meeting
held at Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's official residence
proposed that the second phase of local level polls slated for
June 14 be put off by 8-10 days.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the
Parliament in response of lawmakers' queries on the Government's
policy and programs said that no force on this earth can derail
the second phase of local elections.
|
May 29 |
Government re-scheduled local polls to June 23
in an effort to bring the Madhes-based parties on board. "The
government has decided to re-schedule the polls as it believes
that the RJPN will also participate. Also, we have decided to
amend the election law in order to ease their participation,"
said Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Ramesh
Lekhak.
|
May 30 |
CPN-UML boycotted an all-party meeting called
by NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba to discuss formation of a national
consensus Government.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal demanded to
reconsider the rescheduled date of second round of the local level
elections reasoning that Muslim's festival Eid ul Fitr falls on
the election day of June 23.
Sajha Party issuing a press release urged the
Government to reconsider its recent decision to hold the second
phase of local level elections on June 23, the final day of the
sacred festival of Muslims.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri
during a two-hour meeting with top leaders of the RJPN held at
Indian Embassy suggested RJPN to take part in the second phase
of local elections.
RJPN said that the polls postponement was a positive
development but insisted that more needs to be done to make conducive
environment for the polls.
Two key Madhes-based parties - FSFN led by Upendra
Yadav and NDF led by Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar - have intensified
their preparations for the polls while the RJPN, which was formed
after a merger of six Madhesi parties a little more than a month
ago, is still undecided.
|
May 31 |
CPN-UML obstructed the Parliament demanding the
vote count for Bharatpur Metropolitan City be resumed at the earliest.
EC published the new election schedule as per
the Government decision of holding the second round of local level
polls on June 28.
As the Government rescheduled the second phase
of the local level elections on June 28, the agitating RJPN has
suspended all programs of protest.
Federal Alliance decided to withdraw its torch
rallies planned for June 1 and general strike planned for June
2 after the Government decided to reschedule the second phase
of local polls.
|
June 1 |
Two cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist
were arrested from Bhojpur District for carrying out activities
against the elections.
CPN-UML obstructed Parliamentary proceedings as
well, demanding resumption of vote counting in Bharatpur Metropolitan
City without further delay.
NHRC issuing a press statement asked all parties
concerned to respect people's mandate. NHRC said that its attention
had been drawn to the Bharatpur Metropolitan City incident, where
vote counting was halted after some ballot papers were torn by
the representatives of political parties.
|
June 2 |
Nepali Army personnel have been mobilized in Sunsari
District to ensure security in the run up to the second phase
of local levels elections slated for June 28. Nepali Army personnel
will maintain security in areas where cadres of Limbuwan and Netra
Bikram Chand led CPN Maoist are running anti-election activities
in the District.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing the
Police Inspector Basic Training 165th Batch convocation ceremony
at the National Police Academy in Kathmandu directed Police to
create environment for election.
|
June 3 |
An excavator was set on fire by five masked men
at a bridge construction site in Gaidatar, Chandrapur Municipality-3
of Rautahat District. Locals speculated that the Netra Bikram
Chand-led CPN-Maoist cadres are behind the arson attack, as the
bridge construction team had refused to give donations to the
party.
EC ordered to conduct re-polling in ward number
19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Chitwan District.
CPN-UML decided to seek all kinds of remedy including
the legal recourse against the decision of the EC to hold re-polling
in Ward No 19 of Bharatpur Metropolitian City.
NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba filed his nomination
at the Legislature-Parliament Secretariat for the post of Prime
Minister.
|
June 4 |
Parliament could not elect a new Prime Minister
as Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar adjourned the House till 1:00pm
of June 6 as the main opposition party, CPN-UML, which has been
stalling House proceedings over Bharatpur vote counting, sought
two days for a negotiated settlement.
TRC started the probe into the cases of rights
violation committed during the decade-long Maoist insurgency from
Province 6. A three-member probe committee headed by Joint-Attorney
General of the Surkhet High Court has started investigation into
over 10,000 complaints of Province 6.
A Provincial level office of the TRC was set
up in Biratnagar city of Morang District to settle conflict-era
cases of Province No 1. The commission's was set up to probe various
incidents and cases that took place from 1996 to 2006. As many
as 6,288 cases have been filed at the TRC from Province No 1.
|
June 5 |
CPN-UML signed a four-point agreement with ruling
alliance NC and CPN-Maoist Centre. The four-point deal includes
holding the second phase of local level elections on June 28 in
free, fair and peaceful manner. The deal also includes holding
elections of provincial and federal parliament within the constitutional
deadline, correcting flaws seen in the past elections and making
the parliamentary probe committee active to investigate alleged
poll-rigging in different Districts.
SC stayed the EC's June 3 decision to hold re-election
in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-19. After a preliminary hearing
on a writ, filed by ward member candidate Gunjaman Bishwakarma
and Advocate Tulasi Pandey seeking the SC intervention, a single
bench of Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana ordered to maintain status
quo on the EC decision till June 11.
|
June 6 |
NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba was elected 40th
Prime Minister of Nepal. In the Prime Ministerial election held
in the Parliament, Deuba secured 388 votes, eight short of two-third
majority in the 593-member Parliament. Only 558 lawmakers took
part in the election.
With uncertainty regarding RJP-N's participation
in the second phase of civic polls slated for June 28 looming
large, two central leaders along with dozens of party rank and
file announced their disassociation from the party in Saptari.
|
June 7 |
Police in Rautahat District arrested two cadres
of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist from Chandranigahapur in
Chandrapur Municipality. Police recovered 30 Guillotines, 22 detonators
and 4 fuse devices in the possession of two men.
The first Cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship
of newly elected Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has reiterated
to hold the second phase of local level election on a stipulated
date.
The Chairpersons of the TRC and the CIEDP speaking
in the meeting of the Social Justice and Human Rights Committee
under the Legislature-Parliament to discuss on the progress report
and the action plan of the two transitional justice bodies said
that the adjudication of post-conflict justice has been delayed
as the related Acts of the two bodies await amendment from Parliament.
|
June 8 |
Parliament amended a provision of the Local Level
Election Act through a fast-track process, smoothing the way for
the agitating RJPN to participate in the second phase local polls
scheduled for June 28.
RJPN leaders said that they would not take part
in elections until their key demands, including constitution amendment,
were met.
Federal Alliance issued a press release stating
that it would announce additional protest programmes on June 11.
Chairman of FSF-N Upendra Yadav addressing an
interaction at Reporter's Club Nepal in Kathmandu said that he
was open to forging electoral alliances with political parties
that were strongly committed to the republican order, inclusion
and federalism.
|
June 9 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba reiterating
the commitment to amend the Constitution after the second phase
of local level elections urged the Madhesi parties to participate
the second round of polls slated for June 28.
MoHA prepared Plan 'A' and Plan 'B' for security
during the upcoming second phase of local level elections slated
for June 28 in 461 local levels of 41 Districts of Province 1,2,5
and 7.
EC extended the deadline by three days for political
parties which had failed to forward authentic party representatives
for attesting to their election candidates and verifying their
particulars including signatures.
|
June 10 |
A CPN-UML candidate for the local level elections
was injured in a clash with NC cadres at Diprung Rural Municipality-3
in the Khotang District.
Ruling coalition rejected the proposal of the
RJPN to reschedule the date of the second phase of local level
elections. The RJPN put forward the proposal during the meeting
of ruling coalition NC, CPN (Maoist Center) and RJPN in the presence
of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba held at Singha Durbar.
RJPN leader Rajendra Mahato speaking at a press
meet organized in Rajbiraj, the District headquarters of Saptari
warned that holding the second phase of civic polls without amending
the statute would invite a political disaster.
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
at a programme organized to welcome cadres from different political
parties in the CPN-Maoist Centre at his residence in Lazimpat,
Kathmandu urged Mohan Baidhya and Netra Bikram Chand to come for
party unification.
|
June 11 |
Cadres of RJPN and Upendra Yadav-led FSP-N clashed
with each other in Sarlahi District. The clash erupted following
the demonstration organized by the RJPN to obstruct the mass meet
of FSP-N.
RJPN leader Rajendra Mahato speaking at a press
meet in Biratnagar said incumbent Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba was attempting to commit a second blunder after assuming
the post of the country's chief executive.
A day after the NC and CPN (Maoist Center) rejected
its call for constitution amendment, the Federal Alliance declared
fresh program of protest targeting to foil the second phase of
the local elections.
|
June 12
|
RJPN cadres in Bara District beat up three polling
officers in front of the office of the party office. The polling
officers were there to make necessary arrangements for the June
28 elections.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN Maoist
Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at a meeting in Lazimpat, Kathmandu
forged a consensus to hold talks with the RJPN in a bid to bring
them on board for the second round of local polls on June 28.
RJPN did not submit documents required for participating
in the second phase of local level elections. RJPN leader Rajendra
Mahato said ?The government has not met our political demands
and in this situation we cannot participate in the local polls.?
|
June 13
|
A general strike called by the RJPN to protest
against the June 28 local level elections threw life out of gear
in various Tarai Districts.
RJPN cadres thrown a stone at the vehicle (Ba
14 Chha 1347) belonging to Dr Suresh Kumar Kanodiya, NC mayoral
candidate for Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City in Banke District.
Police arrested Lalit Kumar Rauniyar on the charge of throwing
a stone at Kanodiya?s vehicle.
In Janakpur, educational institutions and marketplaces
remained shut while vehicles stayed off the roads. Protesters
vandalised at least three vehicles at Mujeliya and one hardware
shop at Bramarpura.
In Mahottari, RJP-N members vandalised a vehicle
belonging to Deep Narayan Sah, a former state minister. Sah said
he and his driver sustained injuries when protesters hurled stones
at his vehicle. Protesters also obstructed a programme of an NGO
being held at the Red Cross building in Jaleshwor.
In Saptari, passengers were left in the lurch
after buses were stopped at Rupani, Shambhunath, Kadmaha and Kalyanpur
areas along the East-West Highway.
In Sarlahi, RJP-N supporters burnt tyres and obstructed
vehicular movement at Malangawa, the district headquarters. The
District Election Office cancelled training for election officials
in view of the RJP-N protests.
In Kapilvastu, protesters shut Taulihawa, Krishna-nagar
and Chandrauta Bazaar.
In Bara also, protesters burnt tyres and obstructed
vehicular movement along the highways.
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav speaking at the Reporters?
Club said the preparations for the June 28 local polls have been
completed, adding the elections could not be postponed under any
circumstances.
MoHA spokesperson Deepak Kharel said the Ministry
has made an up to eightfold increase in security presence in Tarai
Districts to ensure free and fair elections.
|
June 14
|
Cadres of RJPN vandalised a vehicle on June 14,
the second day of the four-day protest programme called by the
party, in Rautahat District. The protesters vandalized the bus
of Mahaveer Travels (Na 3 Kha 5611) heading from Kathmandu to
Maulapur in the District.
RJPN cadres disrupted an orientation programme
organized for election officers deputed in Saptari District by
the District Election Office and reportedly took 55 election officers
under control for an hour.
Top leaders including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba, CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman
Pushpa Kamal Dahal held talks on June 14 with the RJP-N leaders,
but they couldn?t reach any understanding on bringing the RJP-N
on board the election scheduled for June 28.
RJPN leader Anil Jha organizing a press conference
at Mahottari District headquarters, Jaleswor, said they would
not participate in the local level election till the constitution
is made friendly to Madhes.
CPN-UML during the standing committee meeting
held at the party?s office in Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu urged the
government to hold the local level elections on June 28 in the
province number 1, 2, 5 and 7 in 43 Districts.
|
June 15
|
Government re-scheduled the scheduled June 28
local election in Province 2 for September 18 in a third phase.
A Cabinet meeting decided to defer the polls in Province 2 and
change the election calendar in the three other provinces.
The EC agreed to extend the time after discussion
held between the Government and the EC officials at Singhadurbar
about the second round of the local elections. Earlier, the time
to file candidacy was scheduled on 16 June.
CPN-UML in a statement accused the Government
of deferring local level elections of Province number 2 and termed
it as an act to promotion of secession in the region.
RJPN said that the Government?s decision to conduct
local level polls on September 18 in Province 2 is unacceptable
to the party.
RJPN presidium leader Rajendra Mahato speaking
at a function organized by Press Forum in Rautahat District warned
that the country would plunge into a great crisis if the Government
tried to hold the second phase of local level elections forcefully.
|
June 16
|
Police arrested 14 cadres of RJPN when they were
about to padlock the Regional Election Office in Biratnagar city
of Morang District.
RJPN said that it will continue its protests as
the Government decided to hold second round of local level elections
against the agreement reached with the RJPN and Federal Alliance.
Presidium member of RJPN, Raj Kishore Yadav at
a news conference organized in Janakpur city of Dhanusa District
blamed that the decision of the Government of holding the local-level
election of province no 2 on September 18 was the conspiracy to
disintegrate the Madhes.
|
June 17
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Three cadres of RJPN injured in a Police firing
at Parasi in Nawalparasi District. RJPN Chairperson Mahanta Thakur
was addressing a protest programme organised at Buddha Chowk of
the District headquarters by the party as an ongoing June 28 poll
protest programme when clashes erupted between the cadres of the
party and Police.
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June 18
|
A CPN-UML cadre was died after being hit by a
stone during a clash with NC cadres at Jogedi in Bajura District.
Both the sides exchanged stones during an ugly fracas on their
way to file nomination at the Chededaha Rural Municipality Election
Office in the District.
A bomb went off injuring at least 10 persons in
Gajeda of Banganga Municipality-4 of Kapilvastu District. The
bomb exploded at the Gajedaha-Taulihawa road section at around
1:35 pm. The bomb exploded some 800 metres away from a polling
station in Gajeda.
Police arrested two central committee members
of RJPN for carrying out activities to obstruct the filing of
nominations by candidates standing in the second phase of local
level elections control from Hasuliya area of Kailali District.
NHRC issued a press release, saying its attention
was drawn to the use of force by the security personnel in the
protests organized by the RJPN and arrests made by security personnel.
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June 19 |
Police in Bajura District arrested three suspects
in connection with the death of CPN-UML supporter Hansh Rawat,
who was killed in a clash between NC and CPN-UML cadres.
RJPN demanded immediate release of its supporters
who were arrested from various places across the Tarai. RJPN leader
Mahendra Raya Yadav claimed that around 455 people have been arrested
by SFs since June 17.
SC summoned the agitating RJPN and the Government
before giving a final verdict over a writ filed to stop the second
round of local polls in 11 Districts in the Terai region on June
28.
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June 20 |
One person was injured when a bomb was thrown
in the house of of CPN-UML ward chairman candidate for Rupakot
Majhuwagadhi Municipality-8 of Khotang District.
A RPP candidate was injured when a group of three
persons attacked him at Itahari Sub Metropolitan City-8 in Sunsari
District. The assailants on a motorcycle intercepted Shyam Pokharel
on his way to home in the locality and attacked him with a dau.
NC leader and former Deputy Prime Minister, Bhimalendra
Nidhi, said the local poll date for Province no 2 was postponed
in agreement with the RJPN.
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June 22 |
An unidentified group exploded bomb at the residence
of mayoral candidate for CPN-Maoist Centre Gokarna Bhatta at Attariya
Bazaar in Kailali District. The explosion smashed the window screens
and caused damages to a door of his house.
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav addressing the orientation
for the national election observers organized by the NEOC in Kathmandu
said that EC doesn't operate under Government's pressure and with
political prejudice as it is governed by its own laws and regulations.
RPP Chairperson Kamal Thapa speaking at a party-organized
election meeting in Udayapur District's Gaighat said failure to
address the Madhes crisis in time might be detrimental to national
security.
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June 24 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba speaking at
a press meet organized by Nepal Press Union in Bhimduttanagar,
Kanchanpur District on June 24 said consensus would be forged
on amendment of the constitution after the civic polls slated
for June 28.
|
June 25 |
Five CPN-Maoist Centre cadres and a bus driver
were injured when a bus they were travelling on was hit by a bomb
explosion at Sunwal-3 of Nawalparsi District.
A bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army defused
a bomb planted in front of the residence of NC mayoral candidate
Mangal Prasad Tharu in Banganga Municipality of Kapilvastu District.
Police arrested four cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led
CPN-Maoist involved in kidnapping a couple from Gongabu of Kathmandu.
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June 26 |
Chandra Singh aka Sunrise (29), a cadre
of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist was killed in a bomb explosion
in Dhangadhi city of Kailali District. According to Police, Chandra
Singh was carrying the bomb himself but it explode when he reached
at the premises of GS and Sons Hotel.
Five people were injured in a clash ensued between
the NC and CPN-Maoist Centre cadres in Sisne Rural Municipality-5,
Rukum District. Among the injured, two are from the NC while remaining
three are the CPN-Maoist Centre cadres, Police said.
A bomb was recovered near a polling centre at
the Jana Prakash Higher Secondary School in Budhinanda Municipality
of Bajura District. Later, the Nepal Army's bomb disposal team
defused the bomb.
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June 27 |
A bomb exploded at the house belonging to the
NC in Siddheshwar of Bhojpur Municipality-4 of Bhojpur District.
The explosion has partly damaged the house, however, no human
casualties have been reported, according to Police.
|
June 28 |
A bomb has gone off at a polling center set up
at Adarsha Adharbhut School located in Ward-7 of Ilam District
at a time when voting was taking place. "The bomb explosion caused
no human casualty", Chief District Officer Janakraj Dahal told.
The second round local elections were conducted
enthusiastically in the 334 local units of Provinces 1, 5 and
7. According to preliminary details provided by the EC, voter
turnout was 70.5 percent.
|
June 29 |
EC revised the voter turnout in the second phase
of the local elections to 73.7 percent. The commission said the
revision was based on the final details sent by the District Election
Offices.
Claiming that the main opposition CPN-UML captured
the polling center and chased away representatives of other parties
in collaboration with security personnel and election officers,
NC and CPN-Maoist Centre demanded re-polling at Chauparti Rural
Municipality-4 and Sanphebagar Municipality-6 of Achham District.
|
June 30 |
EC advised Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to
hold provincial and parliamentary elections separately but before
fourth week of November to meet the constitutional deadline.
Amid growing voices within the RJP-N to withdraw
support extended to the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Government, party
leaders said the party would take a decision only after weighing
options carefully.
|
July 2 |
Irked with the Government's indifference to address
its demands, the agitating RJPN has been mulling withdrawing its
support to the Government.
EC has formed a committee to make an action plan
for holding provincial and parliamentary elections on the dates
it has suggested to the Government.
|
July 4 |
Saying that three-tiers of elections should be
held by January 21, 2018 as per the constitutional provision,
the EC has asked the Government to provide laws and the report
of the Commission to conduct the polls.
CPN-UML Secretary Pradeep Gyawali speaking at
an interaction programme organized in Kathmandu said that the
party is optimistic to endorse a new constitution amendment bill
if tabled in the Parliament in consent with the party.
|
July 7 |
A meeting of the NC, the CPN-Maoist Center and
the RJPN at Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's official residence
decided to amend the constitution by mid-July.
RJPN, which boycotted the local level elections
so far, approached EC, seeking to get registered with the election
body to participate in the upcoming elections including the third
round of local elections scheduled for September 18.
|
July 8 |
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli said his party
would not accept the Constitution Amendment bill put forth by
the ruling parties.
|
July 9 |
FSF-N stated that the Constitution Amendment Bill
registered in the Parliament is incomplete, vague and it would
not help in addressing the problems and demands of marginalized
community.
|
July 10 |
TRC set up its Province 3 field office in Patan,
Lalitpur District. The transitional mechanism has already set
up field offices in six other provinces. Every field office will
begin investigation into 1,000 cases of human rights violation.
CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
addressing a programme at his residence to welcome the leaders
of different political parties in the CPN-Maoist Centre said that
Maoist agendas have prevailed despite the victory of candidates
of the NC and the CPN-UML and others in the local level elections.
|
July 11 |
The ruling alliance told the agitating RJPN that
it would not be able to get the constitution amendment bill passed
in the Legislature-Parliament any time soon.
|
July 12 |
A delegation from the TRC called on Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba and apprised him of the need to amend the TRC
Act.
|
July 16 |
RJPN was registered with the EC. On July 7, RJPN
leaders had filed an application at the EC, seeking to get registered
with the election body to participate in the third round of local
elections to be held in Province 2 on September 18.
EC during a meeting with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba drew the Prime Minister's attention to urgency of forming
CDC, whose report is essential to hold provincial and parliamentary
elections.
FSP-N and NSP-N issuing a joint statement maintained
that a revised constitution amendment bill should be passed by
the House to foster conducive environment for elections.
Information Officer of the Ministry of Peace
and Reconstruction Durga Prasad Bhurtel said that offices of the
Local Peace Committees in all 75 Districts are scrapped from today
as per the secretary-level decision taken on June 14.
|
July 18 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said 165 constituencies
will be devised as per constitution. Deuba urged all not to be
swayed by the rumour of 240 constituencies.
Ruling parties said that Government is ready to
put the constitution amendment bill to a vote if the RJPN pledges
to participate in the third phase of the local elections irrespective
of the bill's fate.
EC at a meeting of office bearers held at its
central office in Kathmandu has decided to update voter lists
in all 744 local levels - rural municipalities, municipalities,
sub-metropolitan cities and metropolitan cities - throughout the
country.
|
July 19 |
RJPN leaders rejected the ruling parties' proposal
to accept the result of voting on the constitution amendment bill.
|
July 21 |
Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Affairs Minister
Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar speaking to media persons at Biratnagar
Airport ruled out the possibility of constitution amendment before
the third phase of local level elections slated for September
18.
RRP at its CWC meeting decided to support the
constitution amendment proposal registered in the Parliament.
The meeting also decided to form religion and culture council
to advocate for the establishment of Nepal as a Hindu nation.
Unification process between Baburam Bhattrai-led
NSPN and Upendra Yadav-led FSFN has reached the final point and
the two parties will merge on August 11.
|
July 23 |
Addressing a press meet organized to unveil the
CPN-Maoist Center Secretariat decision at the party's headquarters
in Parisdanda, Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that only directly
elected President and a Prime Minister elected from the Parliament
could guarantee stability and prosperity in the country.
Senior CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal speaking
at a programme marking the Memorial Day of leader Puspalal in
Bhangeri, Ramechhap said the constitution could be amended on
the ground of necessity only after completion of all levels of
elections.
|
July 24 |
CWC of the NC at a meeting decided to put the
constitution amendment bill to vote without waiting for parties'
support.
Durga Prasad Bhurtel, Information Officer at Peace
and Reconstruction Ministry said that 80 per cent budget of the
Peace and Reconstruction Ministry was spent on relief amount for
war victims this fiscal.
|
July 25 |
RJPN leader Mahantha Thakur in a face to face
programme organized by Rafat Sanchar Club in Bhaktapur District
said that his party will not participate in third phase of local
polls in Province No 2 unless the constitution is amended as per
their demands.
|
July 27 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in a meeting
with Election Commissioners proposed the EC to conduct both the
provincial and central parliamentary elections simultaneously
citing time constraints.
NC General Secretary Dr Shashanka Koirala talking
with office bearers and members of the central committee of NPU
at his residence in Maharajgunj said the constitution amendment
proposal registered in Legislature Parliament would be proceeded.
CPN-UML standing committee meeting has drawn the
attention of the CDC to fix the election constituencies soon.
The meeting urged the Commission to maintain impartiality and
objective grounds while fixing the constituencies. The meeting
has suspected over the timely completion of the three-tier of
elections by upcoming January as the government delayed to form
the commission.
|
July 28 |
CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli said parliamentary
polls should be held before holding the provincial elections.
|
July 29 |
CDC collected suggestions from politicians, social
workers, intellectuals and civic society representatives in Pokhara
District.
|
July 30 |
Senior leaders of the ruling alliance said that
the Government is tabling the constitution amendment bill to a
vote in the next few days regardless of the result.
SC ordered a fresh election in Ward Number 19
of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav said that the election
of the provincial assembly and the House of Representatives was
not possible together for constitutional as well as managerial
reasons.
|
July 31 |
EC directed chief returning officer of Chitwan
District to conduct repolling in Bharatpur-19 as soon as possible
after the SC on July 30 ordered a fresh election in Ward Number
19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.
CPN-UML at its standing committee meeting concluded
that the SC's decision to conduct re-election in Bharatpur Metropolitan
City Ward No 19 has disrespected the people's mandate and the
party is worried about the verdict setting a wrong precedent.
|
August 1 |
Office of the Chief Returning
Officer in Chitwan District announced that it would hold re-polling
in Bharatpur-19 on August 4. |
August 2 |
Minister for Water Supply and Sanitation Mahendra
Yadav said a constitution amendment bill tabled at the Parliament
would be endorsed before the third phase of local level elections
in Province number 2 on September 18.
CDC said that it could not fulfill demands, which
were beyond its jurisdiction. "We cannot fulfill majority of demands
as they are beyond our jurisdiction," CDC Chairperson Kamal Narayan
Das told.
|
August 3 |
RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa addressing a cadres training
progamme organized in Hetaunda city of Makwanpur District announced
that it won't join the incumbent coalition Government led by NC
President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said the CDC should not
delineate constituencies in a way that allows overlapping of rural
municipalities and division of wards - the lowest unit of local
levels.
|
August 4 |
75 per cent voters were turnout in Baraptur repoll.
Of the total 3, 797 voters, 2, 870 voters cast their votes, according
to District Election Office Chief Hari Dhakal.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba speaking at
a press meet organized in Janakpurdham said the third phase of
civic polls slated for September 18 in Province 2 could not be
postponed on any ground.
CPN-UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokharel speaking
at a press meet organized by Bara UML Publicity Department in
Simara said the completion of the upcoming third phase of civic
polls would be the first step towards implementing the new constitution
in the country.
Ganesh Raj Karki, spokesperson for CDC said CDC
is all set to start data analysis and report writing from tomorrow
as it has completed the task of collecting suggestions from the
public.
|
August 5
|
Four Policemen were injured in a pressure cooker
bomb explosion in Surunga Municipality-6 of Saptari District.
The bomb, planted by unidentified men and hidden in a road depression,
exploded at around 9:35 pm.
Renu Dahal of the CPN-Maoist Center, daughter
of the party's chairman and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal
Dahal, has won the election for the post of mayor of Bharatpur
Metropolitan City, defeating CPN-UML's candidate Devi Gyawali
by 203 votes.
A source at the CDC said office bearers were mulling
over the possibility of giving 90 per cent weightage to population
and 10 per cent weightage to geography while delineating electoral
Districts.
A source at the CDC said office bearers were mulling
over the possibility of giving 90 per cent weightage to population
and 10 per cent weightage to geography while delineating electoral
Districts.
|
August 7 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told the EC
to make preparations for holding both provincial and parliamentary
polls simultaneously.
Minister for Supplies Shiva Kumar Mandal said
that the Government was committed to bringing the RJPN on board
the polls while continuing activities initiated by erstwhile Government
in a bid to increase ownership of the new constitution.
|
August 8 |
RPP withdrew its support to the Government alleging
that the Government played a role in splitting the party. In a
party meeting, RPP leaders accused the Government of failing to
address Madhes issues, not running the Government effectively
and indulging in corruption.
RJPN has decided not to take part in the third
phase of local level elections to be held in Province 2 on September
18. RJPN leader Manish Kumar Suman said "We have also decided
to announce protest programmes to disrupt the third phase of local
level elections if the government does not address our demands
within a week."
ICJ in a discussion paper released said Nepal's
transitional justice mechanisms must undergo serious reform in
line with international human rights standards and the directives
of SC in order to provide justice for victims of conflict-era
human rights violations and abuses.
|
August 9 |
Chairman of RPP-D Pashupati Shumsher Rana during
an interaction organized in Kathmandu said his party would join
the Government after fulfilling the process of getting registered
with the EC and with the Parliament Secretariat.
|
August 10 |
SC approved the Government's decision of making
changes in the number of local-level units in Terai region.
CPN-UML senior leader and former Prime Minister
Jhalanath Kahnal speaking in a programme organized in Phikkal
of Ilam District claimed that the constitution amendment bill
would not be endorsed at any cost as it was an irrelevant tune.
|
August 11 |
RJPN agreed to take part in the third phase of
local level polls after the ruling parties agreed to put the constitution
amendment bill to vote.
|
August 13 |
The ruling parties have agreed to increase nine
local units in Province 2 in order to bring the agitating RJPN
onboard the election process.
|
August 15 |
EC asked Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to
announce the date for polls and provide the report of the CDC
and pass election related laws, immediately.
|
August 16 |
Parliament began clause-wise discussion on the
constitution amendment bill. Speaker Onsari Gharti said discussion
on the bill would continue in the next Parliament meeting scheduled
for August 20.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba sought help
from all parties that have representation in the Parliament to
pass the constitution amendment bill.
Three major political parties at a meeting held
at the Prime Minister's residence, Baluwatar, have agreed to hold
the federal and provincial elections on the same day by coming
December 1.
|
August 17 |
EC agreed to hold provincial and parliamentary
elections in single phase after the Government committed to address
its demands.
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Yagya Bahadur Thapa while addressing an interaction programme
in Kathmandu said the constitution amendment bill tabled at the
House looks unlikely to be passed without the support of main
opposition CPN-UML.
|
August 18 |
Government added nine local levels to Province
2, where third phase of local level polls will be held on September
18. With this addition, the number of local levels has reached
753 in the country and 136 in Province 2.
RJPN presidium member Rajendra Mahato during
an interaction with journalists in Dhanusha District said a positive
environment for election is building up.
|
August 20 |
Chairman of RPP Kamal Thapa at a meeting of the
party's central working committee held in Hetauda city of Makwanpur
District said that the party has decided to vote against the constitution
amendment bill tabled at the Legislature-Parliament.
|
August 21 |
The meeting of the Legislature Parliament held
could not endorse the second Constitution Amendment Bill. As many
as 347 lawmakers voted in favor of the Bill while 206 lawmakers
voted against it.
Government announced to hold the provincial and
federal House of Representatives elections on November 26. A Cabinet
meeting held in Singhadarbar decided to write to the EC to hold
both the elections on November 26.
RJPN leaders said will participate in the upcoming
elections despite amendment defeat. RJPN leader Brishesh Chandra
Lal said "The rejection of the bill has raised a serious question
about the willingness of some parties to make the constitution
acceptable to all communities. It has further isolated the moderate
Madhesis and Janajatis fighting for equal rights."
|
August 22 |
CPN-Maoist Center at a meeting at Chairman Pushpa
Kamal Dahal's residence blamed 'arrogance' of the main opposition
CPN-UML was responsible for failure of the constitution amendment
bill in the Parliament.
|
August 23 |
RJPN decided to take part in the third phase of
local level polls slated for September 18. Member of the RJPN
presidium Rajendra Mahato said a meeting of the party took a decision
to this effect. He said the party also decided to take its agenda
that was not passed by the Parliament to voters.
|
August 24 |
President Bidya Devi Bhandari approved a decision
of the NSC to mobilize the Nepal Army for the upcoming local polls
slated for September 18.
RJPN decided to take part in local, provincial
and parliamentary elections and use 'bicycle' as its election
symbol.
|
August 25 |
EC at a meeting of EC office bearers, including
Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, held in Kathmandu
issued an eight-point directive to the Government regarding preparation
for the third phase of local level elections and provincial and
parliamentary polls.
|
August 28 |
CPN- Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
talking to media persons in Biratnagar said that the Constitution
amendment issue irrelevant for time being.
|
August 29 |
Cadres of RJPN pelted stones at the CPN-UML supporters
at Janakpur city in Dhanusa District during a mass gathering that
was being addressed by senior party leaders including former Prime
Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing Gaura
Festival in Tundikhel, Kathmandu said Nepal would strive in development
paths after successfully holding all elections for the implementation
of Constitution and Federalism.
War victims' families at an event held on the
eve of the International Day of the Disappeared organized by NEFAD,
ICRC and NRCS in Kathmandu expressed frustration over the snail-paced
progress made by the CIEDP.
|
August 30 |
Backtracking on its previous decision, the Government
decided to hold the provincial and federal elections in two phases
on November 26 and December 7.
CDC submitted its report to Prime Minister Sher
Bahadur Deuba carving out 165 FPTP Electoral Districts for the
House of Representatives and 330 FPTP constituencies for provinces.
NHRC said it was concerned as the whereabouts
of the disappeared remained unknown even 10 years after the signing
of CPA. It also called on the TRC and the CIEDP to investigate
cases of disappearance without any bias recommend necessary action
against the perpetrators and ensure proper reparation to the victims'
families.
|
August 31 |
CPN-Maoist Centre cadre Ashok Kumar Sah Kalwar
who was pronounced guilty of murder by the District Court of Bara,
lured by financial inducement and under pressure from Home Minister
Janardan Sharma has been let free instead of being jailed.
|
September 1 |
RJPN submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba, opposing the report submitted by CDC. The
party had drawn the attention of the Government to the discriminatory
report of CDC which reduced five parliamentary electoral Districts
in Madhes. The party also said that the CDC created electoral
Districts to suit the interests of the major three parties and
the report also broke clusters of ethnic groups and communities.
|
September 4 |
The report of the CDC was presented at the Legislature-Parliament
meeting. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Yagya
Bahadur Thapa, on behalf of the Prime Minister, presented the
report in the meeting.
SC directed the Government to hold all types of
elections, including the election for the President and Vice-President
of the country by January 21.
|
September 7 |
EC allotted election symbols to all 91 parties
registered at the EC for provincial and parliamentary polls slated
for November 26 and December 7. Out of 95 political parties which
applied for registration, 91 got election symbols while four merged
with other parties.
|
September 8 |
Parliament passed the Madhesi Commission Bill
unanimously. Other two bills - Tharu Commission Bill and Muslim
Commission Bill - that were listed in the Parliamentary business
schedule could not be passed due to lack of quorum.
CPN-Revolutionary Maoist Party Chairman Mohan
Baidya addressing a media in Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City
said the party would take part in the upcoming provincial and
parliamentary elections.
|
September 10 |
EC issued a public notice urging the parties registered
with it to submit their applications if they wished to contest
parliamentary and provincial polls under the PR electoral system.
|
September 11 |
EC unveiled the calendar of provincial and parliamentary
elections scheduled to be held simultaneously in two phases on
November 26 and December 7.
|
September 12 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing a
poll campaign in Rajbiraj town of Saptari District said that the
Government is preparing to put the constitution amendment bill
to vote in Parliament after the local elections.
Chairperson of CPN- Revolutionary Maoist Mohan
Baidya speaking at a press meet organized in Kathmandu has ruled
out ever possibility of reunion with the CPN-Maoist Centre.
|
September 13 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing the
press in Jankapur city of Dhanusa District reaffirmed his pledge
to amend the constitution and promised to do it under his party's
leadership.
|
September 14 |
An unidentified gang abducted chief of Thawang
Rural Municipality, Bir Bahadur Gharti in Rolpa District. The
cadres of the Biplov led Communist Party of Nepal are suspected
to be behind Gharti's abduction planned with an aim to disrupt
the 1st Village Assembly of Thawang Rural Municipality.
EC charted out details of the Districts going
to polls in the first and second phases. The EC said that a total
of 32 Districts from across the seven provinces will go to polls
in the first round on November 26. Out of 77 Districts, the remaining
45 Districts will go to polls on December 7.
|
September 15 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing an
election assembly of the NC organized in Birgunj said that the
NC would leave no stone unturned to empower the Madhesi people
with rights by amending constitution.
|
September 18 |
Voting for the third phase conducted in 136 local
units in various Districts of Province 2.
EC said the third phase of local level elections
was held peacefully, with 73 per cent voter turnout in the eight
Districts of Province 2.
|
September 19 |
Two cadres of the CPN-UML were injured in a clash
between NC cadres and the CPN-UML cadres, when vote counting was
underway at Brindaban Municipality in Rautahat District.
Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN-Maoist cadres vandalized
a state-owned vehicle at Ratna Chowk in Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolitan
City of Kaski District.
|
September 20 |
A cadre of RJPN was killed in a clash with cadres
of NC in Katahariya Municipality in Rautahat District over an
election row.
DECON in its report said that money and muscle
were massively used in third round of local elections held in
the eight Districts of Province 2.
|
September 21 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at a reception
programme said that it was inevitable to hold all three tiers
of elections in the stipulated dates for the effective implementation
of the Constitution.
|
September 22 |
As part of the preparations to hold the upcoming
parliamentary and provincial elections, the EC finalized the design
of the ballot papers to be used for the PR electoral system.
|
September 23 |
Four NC cadres were seriously injured after the
CPN-UML cadres thrashed them on the way to a victory rally in
Brindaban Rural Municipality-5 in Rautahat District.
|
September 25 |
An unidentified group shot dead Mohammad Abusaiyab
(25), son of NC candidate Mohammad Serajuddin who was defeated
in Ward No 2 of Paroha Municipality in Rautahat District. Police
said that the incident might have taken place on the issue of
elections.
|
September 29 |
In another post-election violence, Sawmill proprietor
Birendra Saha (45) of Balchanpur Baradewa of Chandrapur Municipality-10
was found dead with serious head injuries resulted in from attacks
by a sharp-edged weapon in Rautahat District.
|
September 30 |
A three-year-old girl was killed in a clash occurred
between the two neighbors in post-election violence in Rautahat
District. The Yadav family is reportedly close to NC while the
Chaudhary family is said to be the supporter of CPN-UML.
|
October 2 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing a
mass rally organized by NC at Majagaun in Rupandehi District said
that the constitution would be amended to address the demands
of Madhesi people.
CPN-Maoist Center at the secretariat meeting of
the party decided to make electoral alliance with main opposition
CPN-UML for upcoming elections.
RJPN suffered a blow as five of its leaders struck
a deal with the CPN-UML to contest the upcoming provincial and
parliamentary elections with the CPN-UML's election symbol - the
sun.
|
October 3 |
Amid a press conference organized in Kathmandu,
the chiefs of three left political parties - CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist
Center and NSP-N - formed an electoral alliance to contest the
upcoming Provincial and Parliamentary elections.
EC of Nepal appointed 165 officials as the Chief
Returning Officers and Returning Officers in all the 77 Districts
to conduct the elections to the House of Representatives and State
Assemblies.
Nepal's constitution has been published in the
Tharu language, spoken in western Nepal. Yek Raj Chaudhary has
translated the country's main law into the Tharu language.
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October 4 |
Responding to the move of main opposition party
CPN-UML to forge a leftist alliance for the upcoming provincial
and federal elections, a meeting held at the Prime Minister Sher
Bahadur Deuba official residence at Baluwatar between the top
leaders of NC, RJPN, FSFN, RPP, RPP-D and MJF have decided to
forge an electoral alliance for the upcoming provincial and parliamentary
elections.
CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Center and NSP-N formed a
seven-member Unity Coordination Committee under CPN-UML General
Secretary Ishwar Pokharel to draft a common election manifesto.
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October 5 |
An alliance of 33 fringe political parties decided
to take part in the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives
and State Assemblies with the election symbol of 'sickle and hammer',
the symbol of CPN-Maoist Center.
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October 6 |
NC CWC concluded that the left alliance was against
national unity and democratic system, and could affect constitution
implementation and the peace process.
As the process of forging an electoral alliance
between and among political parties has presently intensified,
the FSF-N and RJPN announced their agreement on forging the electoral
alliance for the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives
and State Assemblies together.
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October 9 |
RPP decided to extend its support to Sher Bahadur
Deuba Government who is busy in an exercise to cobble together
an effective coalition to counter a left electoral alliance formed
by his coalition partner, CPN-Maoist Centre and the main opposition
CPN-UML.
General Secretary of FSF-N Ram Sahaya Yadav at
an interaction programme in Kathmandu said the party would forge
electoral alliance with RJPN and NC for upcoming polls to address
the feelings of Madhesi people.
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October 11 |
CPN-United and CPN-Maoist Centre at a formal function
organized in Kathmandu announced unification between the two leftist
forces to bolster their performance in the upcoming polls.
RPP Chairman Kamal Thapa during an interaction
in Butwal said that his party is planning to join the Government
to ensure majority Government and elections.
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October 12 |
CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre during a meeting
of the three top leaders held at the Prime Minister's official
residence in Baluawatar warned Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
not to remove Ministers or postpone the scheduled elections.
CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre during a meeting
of the three top leaders held at the Prime Minister's official
residence in Baluawatar warned Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
not to remove Ministers or postpone the scheduled elections.
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October 13 |
NSPN at the meeting of the party's Provincial
Secretariat in Kathmandu decided to go it alone in the upcoming
provincial and parliamentary elections and exited the left electoral
alliance.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing an
all-party meeting organized by the EC at its central office in
Kantipath said the Government was committed to hold both provincial
and the parliamentary elections on the stipulated dates.
As a part of his plan to reshuffle the cabinet
and relieve the Ministers representing CPN-Maoist Center of their
portfolios, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba wrote to the Office
of President, informing his decision to induct eight Ministers
including four State Ministers from RPP in his cabinet.
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October 14 |
Parliament was dissolved at midnight. As per the
constitutional provision, the term of the Parliament ends a day
before candidates file their nomination for House of Representatives
elections.
After a team from the EC led by CEC Ayodhee Yadav
held consultations with President Bidya Devi Bhandari over the
cabinet reshuffle, the EC has given its go ahead for the induction
of eight Ministers from the RPP into Sher Bahadur Deuba's cabinet.
A meeting of the CPN-Maoist Centre Secretariat
decided not to withdraw its support to the Government or recall
its Ministers.
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October 15 |
As many as 52 political parties submitted their
closed list for the proportional representation in the elections
of House of Representatives and State Assemblies at the Office
of the EC in Kathmandu.
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October 16 |
Bijay Kumar Gachhadar returned to his mother party
when his party NDF merged with the NC. Gachhadar, who had left
the NC 10 years ago, made an emotional speech about his homecoming
at Baluwatar with tears rolling down his cheeks.
Nepal has been elected member of the UNHRC for
the first time since UNHRC's creation in 2006.
During a meeting between Kathmandu-based Ambassadors
of almost all countries except India and China and top leaders
of CPN-Maoist Centre, the envoys urged CPN-Maoist Center to demonstrate
some 'flexibility' so that the long cry of conflict victims for
transitional justice is met.
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October 17 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba reshuffled the
Cabinet, stripping Ministers and Ministers of State representing
the CPN-Maoist Centre of their portfolios.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba while addressing
the 'National Strategic Training' organized by Nepal Students
Union, the sister organization of the NC in Kathmandu said that
democracy is challenged by the leftist alliance.
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October 20 |
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba addressing a
greeting exchange ceremony organized by the NC Bhaktapur District
Committee said that the broader leftist electoral alliance and
unification after the elections would be a threat to democracy
in Nepal.
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of NDF Bijaya
Kumar Gachchhadar said NDF merger with NC is aimed at addressing
the demands of Madhes issues among others.
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October 22 |
Candidates representing various political parties
filed nominations for the first phase elections to Federal Parliament
and Provincial Assemblies in 32 Districts.
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October 23 |
NSC assessed that the Netra Bikram Chand-led Nepal
Communist Party is a major security threat to the upcoming parliamentary
and provincial elections scheduled on November 26 and December
7.
As many as 807 people have filed their candidacy
for the first phase of the elections to the House of Representatives
and State Assemblies to be held on November 26.
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
said he would opt for directly elected presidential system once
his party and the CPN-UML unified.
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October 25 |
EC published the names of 705 candidates who will
contest parliamentary and provincial first-past-the-post election
scheduled for November 26.
EU deployed an EOM to Nepal to observe the federal
parliament and provincial assembly polls scheduled for November
26 and December 7.
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October 26 |
EC Spokesperson Navaraj Dhakal said that printing
of ballot papers for PR elections had been completed.
Left alliance formed by the CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist
Centre said that postponing the upcoming elections under any pretext
would be a threat to democracy.
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October 27 |
RJP-N and FSF-N have accused NC of not taking
seriously the task of forming a democratic alliance seriously.
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October 29 |
Government released NR 5 billion for the preparations
of federal and provincial elections scheduled for November 26
and December 7.
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October 30 |
Political parties submitted the revised final
closed lists of their candidates for the PR category of vote to
the EC.
CEC Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav furnished a written
response to SC stating that the EC has started to print separate
ballot papers of FPTP of House of Representatives and State Assemblies
respectively.
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October 31 |
Police arrested absconding murder convict CPN-Maoist
Centre leader Bal Krishna Dhungel from his rented room in Satdobato
of Lalitpur District in the murder case of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha
on June 24, 1998.
CPN-Maoist Centre has called for release of its
leader Bal Krishna Dhungel. Stating his arrest was against the
peace agreement, party spokesperson Pampha Bhusal condemned the
arrest.
NC President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
addressing a function organized at the party's headquarters in
Sanepa to unveil the party's election manifesto said the left
alliance forged by the CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre had posed
serious threat to democracy as they seek to impose communist totalitarianism
in the country.
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November 1 |
ICJ's report 'Achieving Justice for Gross Human
Rights Violations in Nepal' concludes that impunity for gross
human rights violations is one of the major obstacles to the creation
of a stable and legitimate democratic Government and lies at the
heart of the rule of law crisis in Nepal.
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November 2 |
4,708 candidates filed their nomination papers
for provincial and parliamentary FPTP elections scheduled in 45
Districts for December 7.
EC approved 56 organizations including four international
and 52 domestic organizations for monitoring the upcoming parliamentary
and provincial elections slated for November 26 and December 7.
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November 3 |
EC unveiled lists of provincial and parliamentary
PR candidates submitted by parties. The poll panel said political
parties had submitted names of 6,094 candidates.
RJP-N and FSF-N have requested voters to help
them garner two-third majority in the Parliament so that they
could amend the statute to make it 'acceptable to all'.
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November 4 |
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
addressing an election rally convened at Madi said that the killing
of 38 people in the detonation of a bomb against a moving bus
at Badarmudhe in Madi, Chitwan District on June 6, 2005 was the
biggest mistake committed by the Maoists during their 10-year
insurgency.
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November 9 |
IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque while addressing a community
policing gathering on terrorism and drug abuse at Shibganj Stadium
in Chapainawabganj District as the chief guest said that militants
are trying to reorganize.
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November 10 |
Two persons were injured in a clash that broke
out between the cadres of NC and left alliance in Sotang of Solukhubmu
District. The injured persons are NC District treasurer Pema Tamang
and Ghanshyam Nepali of left alliance.
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November 13 |
CPN-Maoist Centre Pushpa Kamal Dahal talking briefly
to media persons during election campaigning at Chitwan Constituency-3
said the CPN-Maoist Centre and the CPN-UML would be unified only
after elections.
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November 14 |
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli speaking at a programme
organized to merge Naya Shakti Patrty local committee to the CPN-UML
at Lokanthali in Bhaktapur District said that some forces were
plotting conspiracies to murder the left alliance candidates,
after panicking over from the rising popularity of the alliance.
CPN-UML leader Sherdhan Rai's bodyguard Assistant
Sub Inspector of Police Dilli Devkota was injured in a bomb attack
at a turning point above a gompa near Pikhu Khola in Bhojpur District.
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November 15 |
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli at an election
gathering in Besishahar of Lamjung District said unification between
the CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre would take place soon after
the upcoming provincial and parliamentary elections.
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November 16 |
CPN-Maoist Centre leader and left alliance Gorkha-2
candidate for the parliamentary polls Narayan Kaji Shrestha escaped
unhurt when an IED device went off at Sirdikhola of Gorkha District.
Police arrested four cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led
CPN from different parts of Bhojpur District for bomb attack on
the vehicle carrying CPN-UML leader Sherdhan Rai.
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November 17 |
Five persons were injured when an IED went off
targeting vehicles carrying former Minister and NC leader Ram
Sharan Mahat and his supporters at Dandagaun of Kakani Rural Municipality
in Nuwakot District.
An IED was hurled at vehicles carrying CPN-Maoist
Centre leaders Onsari Gharti Magar, Krishna Bahadur Mahara and
Barshaman Pun near Satdobato in Rolpa District Municipality.
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November 18 |
Eight persons including a minor were injured in
a bomb blast targeting the election campaign of the left alliance
near Radha-Krishna Temple of Chandrapur Municipality-5 in Rautahat
District.
A Policeman was injured when a pressure cooker
bomb went off targeting NC senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel at
Nepal Danda of Bhanu Municipality-10 in Tanahun District.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli accused the incumbent
Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Government of being incompetent.
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November 19 |
A pressure cooker bomb ambushed targeting the
candidate for the House of Representatives Bhumi Tripathi, chairperson
of CPN-UML Dhading District in Damechaur-4 of Thakre Rural Municipality
in Dhading District. No one was injured in the incident.
In the wake of a spate of bomb blasts targeting
election candidates and campaigners, a press release issued by
the Home Ministry said personnel of all security agencies - Nepali
Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and National Investigation
Department - were deployed across the country for poll security.
Over 98,000 temporary cops are also working in tandem with the
security agencies.
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November 20 |
A bomb was exploded at the residence of Champadevi
Khadka, Minister of Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation in Laligurans
Chowk of Baglung District. No human casualties have been reported
from the incident.
NC senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel while addressing
an election rally at Rainas Municipality in Lamjung District said
that the recently formed leftist alliance is against the democracy.
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November 21 |
A socket bomb was recovered in Dhading District's
Gajuri Rural Municipality-2, along the Prithvi Highway. A Nepal
Army bomb disposal team from Devidatta Battalion later confirmed
and defused the bomb.
EC's High Level Election Security Committee Coordinator,
Sudhir Kumar Saha, said that the minor untoward incidents that
have occurred sporadically could not be made a basis to assert
that the entire security arrangement as weak.
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November 22 |
Madhu Sudan Paudel, a school teacher was arrested
for planting a bomb at the house of NC leader Uddav Bahadur Thapa
at Shivapuri-4 in Nuwakot District. Poudel is reported to be the
District leader of the teachers association close to NCP.
MoHA said the Government had made foolproof security
arrangements to ensure that the first phase of parliamentary and
provincial elections took place in a free, fair and fearless environment.
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November 23 |
A woman was severely injured in a clash that broke
out between cadres of NC and CPN-Maoist Centre in Rukum District.
Following the scuffle, Police arrested four people for their alleged
involvement in triggering the incident.
There were two attacks in two different places
of Rasuwa District. At Chiuribot of Kalika rural municipality-2,
cadres of Naya Shakti stopped a vehicle of CPN-UML and attacked
those inside. At Syafrubesi of Gosaikunda rural municipality,
cadres of the Democratic Alliance also attacked Karnel Lama's
house. Lama is the candidate for Provincial Assembly from CPN-UML.
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November 24 |
A pedestrian was injured in a bomb explosion near
the election rally organized by Niran Rai, a candidate representing
the left alliance for provincial elections in Ward No. 9 of Dhankuta
District. The injured is identified as Tej Bahadur Karki.
A pressure cooker bomb was recovered at the NC
General Secretary Dr Shashanka Koirala's election publicity office
at Dumkauli in Devchuli Municipality in Nawalpur District.
Police arrested 16 cadres of NCP involved in anti-election
activities from various places in Chitwan District. Among the
arrested is also the District in charge of NCP, Lal Bahadur BC.
Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN cadres abducted Gopal
Bahadur Nepali, Chairman of ward no. 1 in Kushe Rural Municipality,
Jajarkot District.
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal
addressing an election rally organized by the leftist alliance
in Bharatpur-18, for the upcoming polls asserted that there is
no turning back after the leftist parties are formally unified
after the upcoming elections.
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November 25 |
Six people were injured after a clash erupted
between NC and left alliance cadres on the eve of the provincial
and parliamentary polls at Dinkushe Rural Municipality in Jajarkot
District.
Two CPN-UML cadres Bidur Sigdel and Safal Sigdel
were injured when cadres of the NC clashed with CPN-UML activists
at Ghiring Rural Municipality, Tanahun District.
A pressure cooker bomb was detonated targeting
the house of Minister of State for Livestock Development Shambhu
Lal Shrestha based in Ranigunj of Sarlahi District. The rear compound
wall of the house was damaged by the explosion.
A powerful bomb exploded targeting a vehicle carrying
NC parliamentary candidate of Nawalparasi constituency-2 Bishnu
Karki and provincial candidate Bishnu Lamichhane at Jhirubhangyang
in Nawalparasi District.
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November 26
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The first phase of provincial and parliamentary
elections - the first parliamentary polls since 1999 - was held
with a voter turnout of over 65 per cent across the 32 Mountain
and Hill Districts of six provinces that went to the polls.
EC said that the polls were "peaceful" except
for violent incidents in a few polling centres, making the first-phase
vote a "historic success.
Ministry of Home Affairs said the federal parliamentary
and provincial assembly elections held in 32 Districts remained
peaceful.
Three persons sustained injuries in clashes erupted
among voters of the democratic and leftist alliances at Deurali
Primary School polling centre in Sindhupalchowk District.
Two Policemen were injured after an unidentified
gang shot them during a security check in Niradnama of Siraha
District. The injured ones are Mageram Yadav and Adarsha Yadav.
A bomb exploded at the main gate of Panchakanya
Secondary School election centre when voters were casting their
ballots at Chyangre in Pauwadung Rural Municipality-3, in Bhojpur
District.
A bomb was exploded at Bhagawati Secondary School
at Aatharai Tribeni Rural Municipality at around 10:00 am in Taplejung
District.
A sutali bomb went off at a polling station in
Chyangre of Pauwadumma Rural Municipality- 3 in Bhojpur District.
An unidentified group hurled bomb at staffs transporting
ballot boxes from Chaurjahari to Musikot at Ghartikada of Chaurjahari
Municipality-6 in Rukum District.
A bomb was recovered near Kummayak Rural Municipality-based
Siddha Secondary School polling centre in Panchthar District.
A bomb disposal team of the Nepali Army defused the explosive.
Voters loyal to the left alliance captured the
Gaurishankr Rural Municipality-based Suri polling centre in Dolakha
District and chased away NC-aligned voters.
Police arrested seven persons of left alliance
after they tried to capture Eklebari Ward Office polling centrer
at Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-1 in Dolakha District.
As many as 2,575 voters of Tingla in Solukhumbu
District boycotted elections due to non-fulfilment of their demand
of merging Tingla into Solududhkund Municipality.
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November 27 |
One Policeman was injured in a bomb explosion
targeting a team of security personnel carrying ballot boxes at
Kushe Rural Municipality-1 in Jajarkot District. Police suspected
Biplav-led Maoist's involvement in the incident.
In Jhapa District, a sutali bomb went off at NC's
parliamentary candidate Krishna Prasad Sitaula's home in Bhadrapur
Municipality. Police arrested Rajesh Karki, 40, of Barhadashi,
while he was trying to flee after carrying out the explosion.
A bomb exploded at the residence of NC election
candidate Himal Karki of Udayapur District Provincial Constituency
No. 1 (Kha). No casualty has been reported.
Prime Minister and NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba
addressing an election rally organized by NC in Gauradaha of Jhapa
District accused leftist alliance of plotting to foil the constitution
implementation and democracy in Nepal.
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November 28 |
Eight Policemen were injured in an explosion near
the venue of a NC election rally in Dang District. The incident
occurred about 500 metres south of Araniko stadium in Tulsipur,
where NC President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was addressing
a rally.
An explosion took place in Morang District, targeting
the election campaign of the left alliance's parliamentary candidate
from Morang-6 Lalbabu Pandit.
An explosion also occurred in the house of NC's
provincial candidate Himal Karki in Udayapur District. His house
suffered minor damage but cattle were hurt in the explosion.
A group of unidentified persons detonated an
IED on the premises of a school in Lagankhel, Lalitpur Dsitrict
where CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli was attending the party's election
rally.
A powerful remote controlled IED was recovered
near the border security office of the Armed Police Force at Ranjitpur
along the Rajbiraj-Kunauli road section in Saptari District.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba
in his address to an election assembly organized at Bhanu Municipality-12
in Tanahu District by the NC on November 28 said the right to
determine the country's ruling system-dictatorship or democracy-is
in the hand of the people, reports Republica.
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November 29 |
Binod Chaudhary (23), a temporary Policemen injured
in November 28's bomb explosion in Dang District succumbed to
his injuries in course of treatment.
Four persons including NC parliamentary candidate
Narayan Bahadur Karki for Udayapur Constituency No 2 were critically
injured when a vehicle was ambushed in Udaypur District.
NC President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba addressing an election campaign in Pokhara District accused
the left alliance of trying to impose single party rule in the
country in the name of presidential system.
MoHA Spokesperson Narayan Sharma Duwadi said
"We have adopted an aggressive strategy to control election violence.
We are reviewing our strategy to address lapses."
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November 30 |
Police arrested nine cadres of Netra Bikram Chand
led-CPN in Pyuthan District on the charge of conducting anti-elections
activities.
Prime Minister and NC President Sher Bahadur
Deuba at an election campaign organized at Kathauna Bazaar of
Shambhunath Municipality in Saptari District said communism will
destroy democracy.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav addressing an orientation
programme of micro-monitors at the EC central office in Kathmandu
asked the Government and security agencies to boost security so
that every voter could cast vote fearlessly.
Chief District Officer of Saptari District Bhagirath
Pandey said security agencies had taken the Netra Bikram Chand-led
CPN as the biggest threat to security in the run-up to the second
phase of provincial and parliamentary elections scheduled for
December 7.
TI in a statement said that it is worried by
the incidences of poll code violation by the political parties
and candidates during the election campaigns for the upcoming
second phase of federal parliament and provincial assembly elections
slated for December 7.
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December 1 |
IED went off near UN Park in Kupondole of Lalitpur
District. No human casualty has been reported.
An IED exploded targeting a vehicle carrying CPN-UML
senior leader Jhala Nath Khanal at Tinkutte in Ilam District along
the Fikkal-Pashupatinagar road section. No human casualties have
been reported in the explosion.
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December 2 |
A bomb went off targeting the mass meeting addressed
by CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal at Pakadi of
Mayadevi Rural Municipality in Kapilvastu District.
An IED was exploded targeting the election candidates
of left alliance at Angdim in Chathar Rural Municipality-1 of
Tehrathum District. Leaders and cadres escaped the explosion unhurt.
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December 3 |
One grenade planted in Bharatpur Metropolitan
City-5 of Chitwan District went off. However, no casualties were
reported in the explosion except that the window panes at the
Ward Office were shattered.
CEC Ayodhi Prasad Yadav addressing media persons
in Kathmandu said the EC was confident about security arrangements
made by the Government and security agencies for the second phase
of provincial and parliamentary elections.
NA has increased its presence in order to curb
anti-poll activities. The frequency of patrols, according to NA
officials, has increased of late in the 45 Districts where polling
takes place on December 7.
CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
signed a three-point agreement with the victims of the infamous
Bandarmude massacre in violation of the election codes of conduct
in Chitwan District.
An unidentified group hurled IEDs targeting NC
candidate for the federal parliament Surendra Raj Acharya at Buddhabhumi
Municipality in Kapilvastu District. There were no casualties.
Conflict-era victims have complained that the
two transitional justice mechanisms - TRC and CIEDP - have largely
been apathetic to their plight.
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December 4 |
An IED was hurled at the vehicle of Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister for Education Gopalman Shrestha in Bhirkot
Municipality-9 in Syangja District. There were no casualties.
11 persons including former Health Minister and
NC leader Gagan Thapa injured in an explosion targeting his election
rally at Chapali in Kathmandu.
A provincial election candidate of FSP from Saptari
constituency-4 (B) was injured in a knife attack at Balan Bihul
Rural Municipality in Saptari District.
An IED placed near the house of NC Kanchanpur
Constituency No. 3 parliamentary polls candidate Ramesh Lekhak
exploded in Bhimdatta Municipality of Kanchanpur District.
An IED was hurled at a vehicle carrying a left
alliance candidate Khagraj Bhatta in Kanchanpur District. No human
casualties were reported.
An unidentified group launched an attack on a
vehicle carrying a candidate from FSF-N, at Krishna Mandir in
Jhapa District. The group attacked Sushil Kumar Rai, who is contesting
the provincial election from Damak-5 of the District. He, however,
escaped the attack and is safe.
An IED was detonated targeting a vehicle belonging
to Narendra Sah, an independent candidate for the federal parliament
from Sarlahi-3, in Sarlahi District. There were no casualties.
Also an IED was detonated near the house of Keshav
Poudel, a Naya Shakti Party Nepal candidate, at Basagadhi Municipality-5
in Bardiya District. There were no casualties.
NHRC issued a press release saying its serious
attention was drawn to the increased incidents of bomb explosion
across the country.
Officials and observers said said lack of steady
political leadership at the MoHA is one of the reasons behind
security lapses.
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December 5 |
Three people were injured when cadres of left
alliance and FSF-N clashed in Gaushala of Mahottari District.
The injured are Pramod Mahato, Manoj Singh and Bipin Singh of
the left alliance.
A pressure-cooker bomb planted on the ground floor
of an under-construction house of Hira Nanda Maharjan in Kirtipur
Municipality-5 of Kathmandu was safely defused by a bomb disposal
squad of Nepali Army.
A bomb exploded near the house belonging to Kailali
Constituency No. 4 left alliance common candidate Lekhraj Bhatta
in Kailali District. No human casualty and damages have been reported.
EC at a press meet said that it has made arrangements
in such a way that counting of the FPTP votes will be completed
in four days and that of the PR votes in eight days.
Victims of the war-era crimes expressed their
dissatisfaction over the investigation carried out by the TRC,
claiming that it has not followed the due process before wrapping
up the probe.
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December 6 |
Unidentified persons detonated a powerful bomb
at Duwakot of Bhaktapur in Kathmandu in a bid to cut off electricity
supply to various parts of Kathmandu Valley.
Nepal Army defused an IED that was found in Hetauda
Sub Metropolis-8 of Makwanpur District. According to the Police,
an unidentified group had planted the bomb, on the road connecting
Raigai-Kamane-based Industrial corridor.
Nepal Police have taken around 1,000 persons
under control for their attempt to spoil the election atmosphere.
Of them, 600 were associated with Biplav-led Maoist, 13 reportedly
with CK Raut group and remaining 344 belonged to some other political
parties.
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December 7 |
People in 45 Districts voted in the second and
final phase of House of HoR and PA elections, with the EC putting
voter turnout at 67 percent, slightly higher than the first phase
polls held on November 26.
Six persons were injured as IEDs went off in
two polling centres in Nawalparasi District during the second
phase of elections.
Voters at three polling centres in Purano Naikap
in Kathmandu were terrified in the early hours after an explosion.
As a result, voter turnout was low at three polling stations in
Ward 13 of Chandragiri Municipality.
Nepal Police arrested six cadres of Netra Bikram
Chand-led CPN Maoists with a large bombs, and arms and ammunition
in Kathmandu, averting potentially deadly blasts.
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December 8 |
EC stated that 70 per cent of eligible voters
cast their votes in the second phase of provincial and parliamentary
elections held in 45 Districts. The poll panel had stated on December
7 that voter turnout in the second phase of polls was 67 per cent
and that it could rise.
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December 10 |
EU EOM to Nepal said the November 26 and December
7 provincial and parliamentary elections demonstrated that political
freedom prevailed over violent attacks during the election campaign
period.
Clashes broke out during victory rallies taken
out by the FSF-N and the NC in Rautahat District. In Rajpur Municipality-5,
a clash erupted between the supporters of the FSF-N and the NC
when the latter allegedly hurled stones at the rally participants,
celebrating the victory of FSF-N candidate Raj Kishor Prasad Yadav,
who was elected for a provincial assembly seat from Rautahat-2
'B'. Another clash was reported during the NC victory rally at
Mansari of Isnath Municipality-8 when one of the houses caught
fire when the rally participants allegedly set off firecrackers.
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December 11 |
CPN-Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
said that the processes for Government formation and unity between
his party and the CPN-UML will move ahead simultaneously.
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December 12 |
The election observation body comprising NOEC,
GEOC and Inclusive Women Network for Peace, Justice and Democracy
applauded the EC and related agencies for successful execution
of Provincial and Parliamentary Elections held on November 26
and December 7 respectively.
CPN-UML Chairman and former Prime Minister Madhav
Kumar Nepal speaking in an interaction with the locals in Shankhu
of Kathmandu said his party and CPN-Maoist Center would be unified
soon.
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December 13 |
CPN-UML emerged as the largest party with the
end of vote counts of FPTP for federal parliament and provincial
assembly. CPN-UML emerged victorious in 80 federal constituencies
and 166 provincial constituencies.
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December 14 |
One person was injured after an IED exploded in
Lahan Municipality of Siraha District. Police recovered a pamphlet
of JTMM-R from the incident site.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari said the election
was a milestone to implement constitution.
EC stated that it would take at least three weeks
after identifying voters to hold NA elections.
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December 15 |
Ignoring objections by the left alliance, the
Government announced that it is preparing to appoint Governors
in seven provinces next week.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli held a meeting
with President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to discuss contemporary issues.
Girish Chandra Lal-led probe commission submitted
its report to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. The Government
had formed the commission on September 18, 2016, to investigate
into the killings and violent incidents that took place during
protests in the Tarai.
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December 17 |
Counting of PR votes concluded. CPN-UML got 3,173,494
votes, followed by NC's 3,128,389, CPN-Maoist Center's 1,303,721,
RJP-N's 472,254 and FSF-N's 270,201 votes.
CPN-UML Chairman KP Shrama Oli and CPN-Maoist
Center's Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a joint press conference
and warned the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Government not to obstruct
the formation of a new Government.
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December 18 |
Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Yagya Bahadur Thapa speaking at an interaction in Reporters Club
in Kathmandu said the Government would not quit before holding
the NA elections.
CPN-Maoist Center decided that the dispute regarding
the NA election should be resolved through consensus.
CPN-Maoist Center, the main alliance partner
of the CPN-UML, during its secretariat meeting expressed dissatisfaction
at the rigid stance of the CPN-UML against the STV system to pick
members of the NA.
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December 19 |
Government urged the President Bidya Devi Bhandari
to authenticate the ordinance on NA election.
Left Alliance leaders from the CPN-UML and the
CPN-Maoist Center demanded immediate resignation of Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba.
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December 20 |
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari urged leaders of
Left Alliance to resolve the stand-off over ordinance on the NA
election through political consensus.
Leaders of the Left Alliance urged the EC to elect
candidates to the HoR on PR quota at the earliest amid row over
constitutional provision regarding election of the NA.
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December 22 |
Three persons were injured when an IED went off
at the land revenue office in Siraha District. The injured have
been identified as Raj Kumar Paswan and Roshan Paswan.
The elected local representatives from the CPN-Maoist
Center in Rukum made a big decision to validate the conflict-era
land transactions carried out by the 'People's Government' during
the insurgency period.
EC announced the number of seats secured by the
political parties in the PA elections under PR system. Among 220
seats allocated under PR category, CPN-UML secured 75 seats, NC
72 seats, CPN-Maoist Center 35 seats. FSF-N got 13 seats, RPP
12 seats, RJP-N and Bibeksheel Sajha Party have obtained 3 seats
each, Rastriya Janamorcha 2 seats while Naya Shakti Party Nepal,
Federal Democratic National Forum, Nepal Federal Socialist Party,
Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party
(Democratic) had to be satisfied with a single seat each.
An all-party meeting called by Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba ended inconclusively as parties stuck to their
stances on the NA Election Ordinance.
CPN-Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal
speaking at a press meet organized by Press Centre Chitwan at
the Bharatpur Airport stressed that the NA election will not deter
formation of new Government under the leftist alliance.
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December 24 |
CPN-Maoist Center backed the STV system in the
NA election. Speaking at a function in Chitwan District, CPN-Maoist
Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said "If the NA election is
held under single transferable voting system, there will be NC's
participation as well in the National Assembly. The president
should not delay endorsement of the ordinance to end the stalemate."
Chairman of FSF-N Upendra Yadav met President
Bidhya Devi Bhandari and urged her to endorse the NA Election
Ordinance. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Government had
sent the ordinance to the President for her endorsement almost
two months ago, but she has not endorsed it yet.
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December 25 |
EC finalized allocation of
HoR seats under PR electoral system. EC Spokesperson Navaraj Dhakal
said it would take additional two to three days to disclose the
results of parliamentary PR election. |
December 26 |
Top leaders of the CPN-UML
and CPN-Maoist Center decided to expedite negotiations to resolve
the current deadlock over the NA ordinance and formation of new
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December 27 |
MoPR expedited the process of amending the Enforced
Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act
2014 that governs the TRC and the CIEDP.
CPN-Maoist Center is preparing to present a proposal
whereby the party's unification with the CPN-UML will proceed
only if the CPN-Maoist Center gets one of the two crucial posts
- the Prime Minister or the Chairman of the unified party.
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December 28 |
EC asked parties to register nomination for the
NA election within 15 days. A meeting of the EC presided over
by the CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav made the decision to this effect.
A writ petition was filed at the SC demanding
that the NA Election Ordinance sent to the President be endorsed
by the head of state.
Senior leaders of FSF-N and RJP-N expressed readiness
to support any party in forming the government if their concerns
related to the constitution are addressed.
RJP- N staked claim to form the Government in
Province 2 and the party's central secretariat decided to initiate
backdoor negotiations with like-minded forces to forge a coalition.
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December 29 |
President Bidya Devi Bhandari authenticated the
ordinance on election to NA. The President's Chief Personal Secretary,
Bhesh Raj Adhikari, said that the President authenticated the
ordinance which had been pending at the Office of the President
for long due to the dispute among the political parties over it.
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav said that the process
to form a new Government will begin only after at least 45 days
as the EC would take a minimum of a month to hold the NA polls.
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December 30 |
RJP-N leader Laxman Lal Karna
Speaking at Reporters Club in Kathmandu said the RJP-N could join
the next Government if the coalition partner pledged to amend the
constitution and withdraw false charges slapped against party cadres
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December 31 |
CEC Ayodhee Prasad Yadav speaking at a function
organized in Kathmandu said that the parliamentary seats under
the PR system will be allocated only after the election of the
NA.
As the left alliance is courting NSP-N and FSF-N
for merger, NSP-N Coordinator Baburam Bhattarai and FSF-N Chairman
Upendra Yadav have said they would consider joining the alliance
only if it agrees to drop the 'communist' tag and adopt 'socialist'
label.
CVCP issuing a press release in the Capital, Kathmandu
said that CIEDP is forwarding complaints regarding the missing
persons to the TRC without carrying out investigations.
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