(Updated with some parties´ demand for repolling)
- Maoist, NC, MPRF, TMDP demand re-election in four Dhanusha polling booths
KATHMANDU, April 10: Voting process for Constituent Assembly seats concluded in all the six constituencies without any serious incidents of violence, Election Comeission officials said.
“The voting remained peaceful and the poling officials are closing the voting process,” said Uddhav Baskota, spokesperson of the Election Commission, told myrepublica.com at 5 p.m.
Baskota said the vote counting will begin after all the voting machines arrive in district headquarters and counting in some of the constituencies will begin in the evening. “We expect to make public the result by tomorrow morning if the counting process goes smoothly.”
According to our correspondents, turn out in all the constituencies in around 50 percent. Biratnagar correspondent Ajit Tiwari said there was just more than 50 percent turn out in Morang-5 and Morang-7 constituencies. Mandatory provision for the voters to show their citizenship certificate has been blamed for low turn out.
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In Dhanusha-5, about 60 percent people cast their votes. As male members and youngsters from most of the households are in foreign employment, there was low turn out of the voters, said our correspondent Suresh Yadav..
In Kaski, about 45 percent of the voters cast their votes, according to our correspondents Manoj Adhikari and Santosh Pokharel.
In Kanchanpur, the turn was estimated at just 45 percent. Of the 67589 voters, only 30691 cast their votes in Kanchanpur-4. Our correspondent Dil Bahadur Chhatyal said turn out in Rolpa-2 was 41.36 percent..
Meanwhile, alleging that CPN-UML cadres captured four polling stations in Dhanusha in police´s backing, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Nepali Congress, Madhesi People´s Rights Forum and Tarai Madhes Democratic Party have demanded repolling in these booths.
