Local level elections: Party intensify activities

MAHOTTARI: FEB. 20 – The activities of political parties in the district have intensified with the preparations for the upcoming local elections.

The major rival parties in national politics as well as small and new parties have increased their activities aimed at wooing the voters.

Accordingly, the ruling party Nepali Congress is preparing for the district convention which was withheld earlier. The Congress, which is preparing for the district convention, is holding a regional convention in Constituency No. 3 of Mahottari today.

Acting district president Shambhu Narayan Pathak said that his party will contest the local elections immediately after the convention.

Similarly, the CPN (UML) has held a local level election-focused public meeting in Constituency No. 3 Pipara on Saturday.

Tek Bahadur Balampaki, district chair of the party, said that they are busy with the homework of selecting the initial names of the local level party committee candidates of the district in view of the upcoming election.

Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Center), SP Nepal and Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal have intensified their party activities. At present, programs of some parties are held in different places of the district on the same day.

Apart from this, the Janamat Party is also engaged in the formation and reorganization of the assembly, meeting and local party committees.

On Saturday alone, the Scientific Socialist Communist Party, led by Bishwabhakta Dulal (Ahuti), held its first district meeting in Bardibas.

Similarly, the Nepali Congress (NC) held a Madhes–State level meeting in Bardibas on Saturday. The party’s meeting was attended by central members as well.

As the government has announced the date of the local level election and the Election Commission has been making preparations for it, the parties are now intensifying their activities.

However, the Scientific Socialist Communist Party has made it clear that its work is more about identifying and raising issues of public concern than election-centric ones.