Parties in race to select poll candidates

Three weeks in the in the to the front the September 18 polls in Province 2, the parties are yet to pick their candidates for the local councils in the eight Tarai districts. All the major parties--Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Centre) and the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal--are yet in consultations to finalise their candidates.
With a large number of leaders and cadres vying for alternating positions of the local governments, the parties are having a tough epoch selecting their candidates. However, both the ruling NC and Maoist Centre are set to pick the names by Tuesday.
The main foe UML has said it would select its candidates by the decrease of this week. UML leaders said the partys Standing Committee will deliver judgment the names following party Chairman KP Sharma Oli returns from Bangkok. Oli is currently in Thailand for regular health check-taking place.
According to NC leader and Minister for Labour and Employment Farmulla Mansur, the party has already conventional the names of 70 percent candidates. A large number of local leaders have claimed exchange positions in the local councils.
The NC would finalise its candidates in Parsa and Dhanusha districts on the subject of Monday. NC leader Ramesh Rijal said the party would pick the candidates by Tuesday after the lists of candidates reach the party headquarters.
The UML has said it has no hassles in announcing its candidates as the district committees have already prepared the lists of probable runners for metropolis and village council seats. Of the 136 local units, candidate recommendation has been more than in 116 councils.
The central committee will nominate the candidates for metropolitan and sub-metropolitan cities, UML leader Bishnu Poudel told the Post. A Standing Committee meeting will be of the same mind a firm decision.
To sort some of the issues in the nominations and to discuss auxiliary broader issues related to the polls, peak UML leaders including acting Chairman Bam Dev Gautam and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal reached Birgunj when hint to Sunday. Nepal has been visiting several districts in the central Tarai apportion support to on Friday.
Maoist Centre coordinator for Province 2 Biswonath Sah said the party has already completed 75 percent of the selections. The blazing would be completed by Tuesday. The party will regard as innate the candidates in the presence of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal as regards Tuesday, he said.
The RJP-N has sent central observers to all the eight districts for candidate selection. They are infuriating to choose candidates in consensus but if disputes arise the names would be picked by the party brass. Scuffles were reported in vary parts of Madhes in the middle of the party supporters on extremity of candidate selection.
Leader Brikhesh Chandra Lal said each and every one the candidates would be fixed by Wednesday.
NC leader Rijal said the party would forge electoral alliances considering the Maoist Centre in the local federal units where the UML is stronger. He, however, said the chances of forging alliances as soon as Madhes-based parties were slim.
With a sound showing in the two phases of local polls, the UML has centralised its efforts in Province 2, where the party has a supposedly weaker direction.
The party had mobilised a team led by General Secretary Ishwor Pokhrel in the plains province. While Pokhrel led the team to Parsa, Deputy General Secretary Bishnu Poudel and Ghanashyam Bhusal reached Bara and Rautahat districts, respectively.
The five secretaries Yogesh Bhattarai, Pradeep Gyawali, Gokarna Bista, Bhim Acharya and Prithvi Subba Gurung had toured Dhanusha, Siraha, Sarlahi, Saptari and Mahottari districts.
According to UML Secretary Bista, their assessment shows that the party is not weak as projected by go ahead forces. The outcome of elections in added Tarai districts in the first two phases as well as indicated that the party holds precise showground in the region, he said.
The Election Commission has scheduled candidate nomination for September 6. With NC President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returning from New Delhi around Sunday, NC leaders said the names would be decided from Monday.
In Deubas malingering, acting president Bimalendra Nidhi conducted district-wise discussions. Central members from Province 2, lawmakers and district chairpersons attended the deliberation.
Acting UML Chairman Gautam, senior leaders Shankar Pokharel, Ishwori Rijal, Rajendra Pandey, Raghubir Mahaseth and province in-exploit Satya Narayan Mandal were rouse taking into account the partys comings and goings in Birgunj concerning Sunday.
95 parties listed for fed, make a clean breast elections
As many as 95 diplomatic parties have applied to the Election Commission for participation in the upcoming provincial and federal parliamentary elections slated for November 26 as the deadline for registration expired very approximately Sunday evening.
Major parties including the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, and the CPN (Maoist Centre) applied for registration submitting essential documents including audit reports of the last fiscal year.
On Sunday, the NC, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the RPP (Prajatantrik) applied for contesting the polls, according to the EC.
The RPP (P) was listed as a sever party after the Supreme Court upon August 21 issued an drama order to recognise its allegation for the RPPs central members and parliamentarians.
A quantity of 31 parties applied for registration upon Sunday, according EC Spokesperson Surya Sharma. As many as 80 parties have been listed for the local elections.
The Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal, which boycotted the first and second rounds of local elections, afterward applied for participation in the every single one the upcoming polls.