After being defeated, Jhalnath filed a petition claiming that the election was rigged and that a re-election should be held. He claimed that the role of Chief Election Commissioner and Election Officer in the writ was wrong.
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After the defeat in the House of Representatives elections, the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court has made a comment dismissing the case filed by the candidate of Ilam Region No. 1 and former Prime Minister Jhalnath Khanal.
The constitutional bench of the then Chief Justice Vishwambhar Prasad Shrestha, Justices Prakashman Singh Raut, Sapna Pradhan Malla, Prakash Kumar Dhungana and Manoj Kumar Sharma dismissed the writ and commented that they made 'goshwara allegations' in response to the defeat.
The full text of the verdict on 5 June 2081 has been published recently. In full text, the Supreme Court has commented that the allegations made in the writ given by the former prime minister after he was defeated in the election cannot be considered just. "Even if there is freedom to express dissatisfaction with the election results, such dissatisfaction should be expressed at the same time by completing the method prescribed by the prevailing law," the full text of the judgment says, "Especially the accusations leveled against high officials such as district judges who are in judicial responsibilities and the employees assigned to the election in the form of false statements based on facts and evidence cannot be considered fair and reasonable."
In the House of Representatives elections of November 2079, Khanal, the respected leader of CPN (Unified Socialist) and former Prime Minister, was defeated for the second time after almost 3 decades from Ilam Region No. 1. Earlier, he was defeated in the 2056 election. Khanal was defeated by Mahesh Basnet, the then district president of UML, by a margin of 2,664 votes. Basnet got 25 thousand 753 votes and Khanal got 23 thousand 89 votes.
Since 2048, Khanal has won all but one parliamentary election. Earlier, Khanal, who contested the election under the Surya icon, contested the election from the CPN (S), which was formed after the UML split. Although he was in the field as a common candidate of the coalition, he was defeated.
Khanal In the interim government after the 2046 people's movement, Khanal became the minister of agriculture, land reform and order, forest and environment. In 064 and 070 Constituent Assembly elections and 074 House of Representatives member elections, Khanal won from Ilam 1. He was elected Prime Minister on 20th January 2067.
After the defeat, Jhalnath filed a writ claiming that the election was rigged and that a re-election should be held. He had claimed that the role of Chief Election Commissioner and Election Officer was wrong in the writ.
'During every voting, candidates' representatives or agents are arranged to stay in every booth. It is not seen from any documents submitted by the petitioner that there was a complaint or protest that the election was not clean as the petitioner said that the election was not fair as the petitioner said during the voting at that time. In fact, it was found that the petitioner had accepted the voting in the election," the full text of the judgment says, "Even though the ballot box was safely transported to the counting station, the representatives of the candidates were kept in Rohwar. It does not seem that the complainant has been able to say otherwise in this regard. It is not mentioned in the complaint petition that the seals in the ballot boxes were broken or that someone interfered with the ballot box when it was brought from the polling station to the counting place. It is not seen in the complaint that there was any fraud even during the counting of votes.
It is mentioned in the full text of the judgment that it was not seen anywhere that the badar vote was counted as Sadar and the sadar vote was counted as invalid and the complainant did not do anything but filed a writ with false accusations in the court even though the right to protest in this regard was vested in the complainant .
"It is not reasonable to complain that the entire election process was not properly, not clean, and not fair when the result of the counting of votes is about to end, and it is not reasonable to complain that the operation of the entire election is not proper, not clean, and not fair," it is mentioned in the full text, "Only on the basis that the number of people who voted and some number of ballots in the ballot box remained different, the petitioner's claim that the election was not free and fair cannot be considered reasonable based on the stated grounds . It is mentioned in the verdict that the most responsible and accountable party in the
election is the candidate. The party has tried to prove to the people that it is capable and worthy to exercise the legal power of the people through the election itself. "When the candidate blames the employees but is unable to provide objective evidence, it should be understood that it shows the weakness of the candidate," the full text of the judgment says.
The Supreme Court has also reminded the party that wants to take the reins of the government of the country by legally obtaining the state power vested in the people through the election and showing itself to be the most moral. It is mentioned in the full text that it is unbecoming for any candidate to make objections to other parties involved in the election after thinking about it and not submitting any kind of reason to confirm it.
