According to the Election Commission, a complaint has been filed against candidates including former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Resham Chaudhary.
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Claims/objections have been filed against candidates who have registered their nominations for the upcoming House of Representatives elections to be held on 21 Falgun. According to the Election Commission, complaints have been filed against candidates including former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Resham Chaudhary.
The NCP leader and former Prime Minister Nepal has filed his candidacy from Rautahat-1. It has been claimed that he is ineligible to be a candidate as a corruption case is pending against him in the Patanjali land case in the special court.
A complaint has also been registered against Resham Lal Chaudhary, the candidate from Kailali-1 of the Civil Liberation Party Nepal. He is a person convicted by the Supreme Court in the Tikapur massacre case. However, he was pardoned by the President and released.
Similarly, a complaint has been registered against Lal Bikram Thapa, the candidate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from Sunsari-2, Rajiv Khatri, the candidate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from Bhaktapur-2, and Januka Pathak, the candidate of the Nepal Janasewa Party from Bhaktapur-2, the Commission has stated.
A complaint has been filed against Khatri, the candidate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), for not disbursing the salary he received from Nepal Scouts. The Chief Electoral Officer's Office has informed that a complaint has been filed against him claiming that he received Rs 95,000 from the scout but did not pay it.
A complaint has been filed against Pathak, the candidate from Bhaktapur-2, claiming that his citizenship details and the details of his nomination paper did not match, the Chief Electoral Officer's Office has informed.
Election Commission Information Officer Suman Ghimire said that the time for registering complaints was fixed from 10 am to 3 pm on Wednesday, and during that period, 2 complaints were received in Bhaktapur, 1 in Rautahat, 1 in Sunsari, and 1 in Kailali. He said that the complaints filed against the candidates would be investigated and finalized by 5 pm on Thursday.
