Ilam candidates Nembang, Khadka and Limbu cast their votes
ILAM, April 27: Voting for the by-election to elect a representative to the House of Representatives in Ilam constituency-2 and provincial assembly member in Bajhang-1(a) is underway.
The voting, which began at 7:00 AM, will continue until 5 PM. According to Chief Election Officer Keshav Prasad Ghimire, voting started peacefully in all 149 polling centers under the constituency.
A total of 745 staff, 1,523 Nepal Police personnel, 710 Armed Police Force personnel, 450 Nepali Army personnel, and 24 personnel of the National Investigation Department have been mobilized to conduct the election in a peaceful and fearless environment, he shared.
Ilam-2 and Bajhang 1(a) by-elections: Vote counting begins
The Ilam constituency-2 has a total of 115,889 eligible voters. Among them, 59,018 are male voters, 56,869 are female voters, and two are 'third gender' voters, according to the Election Commission.
In the by-election, 12 parties and seven independent candidates are in the fray. All male candidates are contesting in this by-election. CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center), Nepal Pariwar Dal, and CPN (Maoist Center) have fielded Suhang Nembang of UML as a joint candidate.
Dambar Bahadur Khadka from the Nepali Congress, Milan Kumar Yonghang Limbu from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), and Dakendrasingh Thegim from the Pahichan Pakchyadhar Party have registered as independent candidates.
Prem Bahadur Limbu of Janmat Party, Shyam Bahadur Darji of Nepal Workers Peasants Party, Mani Bahadur Limbu of Mongol National Organization, Dhanraj Rana Magar of National Republic Nepal, Laxmi Gurung of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, and Jit Bahadur Rai of CPN (Unified Socialist) are candidates.
Rastriya Mukti Andolan Nepal's Jaywanta Bikram Sah, RPP Nepal's Ganesh Bahadur Chauhan, and Nepali Janata Dal's Resham Bahadur Sunar Nepali have registered their candidacy. Dak Prasad Gautam, Manoj Niraula, Arjun Kumar Sahi, Dipesh Bohora, Yogendra Gurung, and Raj Basyal have filed their candidature as independent candidates.
After the death of UML Vice Chairman Subaschandra Nembang, who is also the former Speaker of the Constituent Assembly, on September 12, the by-election is being held to fill the vacant position.
CPN-UML candidate Suhang Nembang and Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Dambar Khadka have cast their votes from the Ilam Mahendra Multiple Campus Center in the by-elections currently being held in Ilam Constituency-2.
Similarly, RSP candidate Milan Kumar Yonghang Limbu has cast a vote from Janata Kalyan Secondary School in Mangsebung-2.
Likewise, voting is underway in Bajhang-1(a) to elect a provincial assembly member. The constituency has a total of 61,748 voters distributed across 74 polling stations, including 93 polling centers. Among them, 31 centers are categorized as normal, 30 as sensitive, and 32 as hypersensitive.
A total of 12 candidates are contesting in Bajhang-1(a) by-election. The by-election in Bajhang-1(a) was necessitated by the death of provincial assembly member Prithvi Bahadur Singh.
