Polling officer Tek Bahadur Khadka said that not a single person came to vote at Deuti Secondary School, Lower Malaikhola, in Babai Rural Municipality-7.
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Not a single vote was cast at a polling station in Dang-3 for the election of members of the House of Representatives. Polling officer Tek Bahadur Khadka said that not a single person came to vote at Deuti Secondary School, Lower Malaikhola, Babai Rural Municipality-7.
He informed that out of 530 voters, 274 men and 256 women, no one participated in the voting at the center. ‘Even after waiting for a whole day, no one came. It was seen that all the villagers had unitedly decided not to vote,’ Khadka said, ‘The decision was made not to participate in the voting to express dissatisfaction with the leaders.’
The residents of the area, which is located in the buffer zone of Banke National Park, had earlier announced that they would not vote. They had announced that they would boycott the voting, saying that the leaders had not come to the village, that despite all the votes they cast, there was no development infrastructure and that the Banke National Park had made the village unsafe. They did not participate in the voting, maintaining that stance.
Similarly, no voters came to the Janata Basic School District Polling Station in Babai-1 for half a day. Only 10 voters came in the afternoon. They also said that they did not vote to teach the leaders a lesson. Polling officer Chiranjeevi Khadka said that although preparations were underway since morning, only 10 voters came to vote in the end.
He said that no one came to the all-party meeting and that they had informed them that they would boycott the election. Khadka informed that they had announced the boycott because the leaders had ignored them, did not listen to the people's voices and did not take any initiative for development. There were 682 voters in the district, including 294 men and 388 women.
After no change in the number of votes cast, the chairman of the Sangharsh Samiti, Chandra Bahadur Rahu Magar, said that they had come to the conclusion that they would not vote. 'We came demanding the relocation of the settlement from the central area, otherwise we demanded development in the village,' he said, 'Our words were not heard at all.' If we don't hear anything after voting, why vote? This is our rebellion.' He said that leaders should learn a lesson from this that they should understand the feelings of the people.
Deepak Giri of the Nepali Congress was elected from Dang-3 in the 2079 election. Giri is a candidate this time too. Ghanshyam Pandey from the UML, Dhan Bahadur Maski from the Nepali Communist Party, and Kamal Subedi from the National Independent Party are in the fray. Maski was elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly from this constituency in the 2079 election. He resigned from the position of a member of the Provincial Assembly and has now become a candidate.
