213 thousand voters added in State 2

JANAKPUR: JAN. 6 – Around 213,000 more voters have been registered in State 2 under the voters list with photo updating campaign launched by the Election Commission in the recent period.

Of them, 38,344 voters were added in Dhanusha and 29,278 in Siraha. According to the State Election Office, Janakpurdham, such number of voters was added under the one-month campaign launched from Dec 3 to Jan 2 targeting the election.

Number of people from villages of Dhanusha visiting the State Election Office of State 2, Janakpurdham to register their name along with photograph in voters list is increasing.

Information Officer Krishna Raut said that a large number of people used to gather to have their names enlisted in the voters list in front of the office gate before the office time.

Similarly, Chief of Province Election Office, Pushpa Jha, shared that around 600-700 people visit the office daily to register their name with photograph in voters list.

Jha added that number of people registering their name along with photograph in voters list has increased as a campaign to collect voters name list was not launched in local level since long after 2074 election, increasing number of people returning from abroad as well as others.

Local representatives and political leaders are sending those people missed the registration in the biometric voters’ list for getting their names registered. As Chief Jha said, people’s representatives and political parties are concerned about the registration of all eligible people in the voters’ name list in view of the upcoming election. It seems that they do not want any probable voter in their favour to be deprived of taking part in the election.

With the rise in the voters’ number, Dhanusha District Election Office has so far registered the details of 463,397 voters and earlier this number was 425,053. The registration campaign was organised in two phases.

Similarly, the District Election Office, Siraha says it so far records the registration of 406,972 voters. The registration campaign was organised at all 17 local levels in two rounds for a complete one month. In the 2018 local level election in Siraha, the number of voters was 332,894.

-RSS